More Quotes by Viola Davis
I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"
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.
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.
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 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.
You can't be hesitant about who you are.
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.