Viola Davis is an American actress and producer. Having won an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards, she is the first black thespian to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. These inspirational Viola Davis Quotes will change your life.
Best Viola Davis Quotes
- “You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.” – Viola Davis
- “When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.” – Viola Davis
- “Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.” – Viola Davis
- “When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.” – Viola Davis
- “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.” – Viola Davis
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“You can’t be hesitant about who you are.” – Viola Davis
- “I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.” – Viola Davis
- “I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?” – Viola Davis
- “I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.” – Viola Davis
- “Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.” – Viola Davis
- “I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.” – Viola Davis
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“They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.” – Viola Davis
- “I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent” – Viola Davis
- “The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.” – Viola Davis
- “I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am” – Viola Davis
- “When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.” – Viola Davis
- “I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category. I thought it was so progressive.” – Viola Davis
- “Relationships change us and make us grow.” – Viola Davis
- “I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.” – Viola Davis
- “It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.” – Viola Davis
- “I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.” – Viola Davis
- “We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.” – Viola Davis
- “And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.” – Viola Davis
- “I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.” – Viola Davis
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“Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.” – Viola Davis
- “Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.” – Viola Davis
- “It’s time for people to see us, people of color, for what we really are: complicated.” – Viola Davis
- “Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.” – Viola Davis
- “I sort of feel like that’s the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.” – Viola Davis
- “Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.” – Viola Davis
- “Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!” – Viola Davis
- “I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.” – Viola Davis
- “Each role has its own different challenges.” – Viola Davis
- “If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.” – Viola Davis
- “Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.” – Viola Davis
- “I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.” – Viola Davis
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“I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.” – Viola Davis
- “And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.” – Viola Davis
- “I really wanted to show [in “fences”] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.” – Viola Davis
- “I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.” – Viola Davis
- “I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.” – Viola Davis
- “I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.” – Viola Davis
- “I am addicted to any facial product that’s anti-aging.” – Viola Davis
- “I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.” – Viola Davis
- “To me, it’s always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.” – Viola Davis
- “I’ve always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things.” – Viola Davis
- “That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.” – Viola Davis
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“I am not a morning person, but I always work out – always.” – Viola Davis
- “Denzel just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don’t often get that.” – Viola Davis
- “Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.” – Viola Davis
- “I don’t think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.” – Viola Davis
- “Just because I was 30 doesn’t mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.” – Viola Davis
- “Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.” – Viola Davis Quotes
- “I haven’t seen most of what I’ve done. I can’t even list them. Most television jobs. I haven’t seen a lot.” – Viola Davis
- “It’s always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.” – Viola Davis
