More Quotes by Viola Davis
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.
I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.
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.
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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.
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
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.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
