More Quotes by Viola Davis
When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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.
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.
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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.
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
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 can't be hesitant about who you are.
They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
I was like, 'What is this?' Until I found out it was stress related. That's how I internalized it. I don't do that anymore. My favorite saying in the world is, 'The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.' I am telling you, I have spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin. I am just so not there anymore.
