More Quotes by Viola Davis
Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
You can't be hesitant about who you are.
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.
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent
