More Quotes by Viola Davis
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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.
You can't be hesitant about who you are.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
