More Quotes by Viola Davis
Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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.
You have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it. When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.
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.
Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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.
They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.
