More Quotes by Viola Davis
They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen is because that does not translate with being black.
Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
You can't be hesitant about who you are.
Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.
I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"
