I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
VIOLA DAVISAs an artist, you’ve got to see the mess. That’s what we do. We get a human being, and it’s like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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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.
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I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don’t have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter’s] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
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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.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
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I’ve always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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And that’s what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves – parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it’s pretty spectacular.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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And “classically not beautiful” is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
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Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.
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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.
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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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