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Relationships change us and make us grow.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Grows
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.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Stress
Feelings
Skins
They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Thinking
Heal
I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Thinking
People
Want
At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Wall
People
Giving
Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Powerful
Hero
Thinking
But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of you?" And she says "my brain and my heart." And I say, "You've gotta remember that, Genesis. You've gotta remember that you're not what you look like," you know? I think that's the best beauty advice I could give her.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Daughter
Morning
Heart
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
BadAss
Opportunity
Color
I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
GiftsAndTalents
Levels
Want
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Deficit
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Artist
Politician
Each role has its own different challenges.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Challenges
Different
Roles
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Vanity
Ego
Actors
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Thinking
Self
Balance
Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Womanhood
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Hate
CapacityToLove
Humanity
And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Believe
People
TheEndOfTheDay
It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Opportunity
Awards
Important
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Writing
Escaping
Age
I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.
― Viola Davis
Viola Davis
Dream
Thinking
Mind
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