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More Quotes by Viola Davis
You can't be hesitant about who you are.
I was like, 'What is this?' Until I found out it was stress related. That's how I internalized it. I don't do that anymore. My favorite saying in the world is, 'The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.' I am telling you, I have spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin. I am just so not there anymore.
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.
