I can’t deal with actors! I can’t deal with myself. We’re neurotic and miserable… I love doing what I’m doing, but while I’m doing it, I’m miserable.
VIOLA DAVISI can’t deal with actors! I can’t deal with myself. We’re neurotic and miserable… I love doing what I’m doing, but while I’m doing it, I’m miserable.
More Viola Davis Quotes
-
-
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.
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 -
Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
VIOLA DAVIS -
I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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.
VIOLA DAVIS -
I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
VIOLA DAVIS -
Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes – that’s what it is, as an actor.
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 -
When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
VIOLA DAVIS -
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
VIOLA DAVIS -
That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she’s like, ‘I just want to be a mom.
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 am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
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 think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
VIOLA DAVIS






