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.
VIOLA DAVISKnowing 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.
VIOLA DAVISEvery artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
VIOLA DAVISYou cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
VIOLA DAVISCicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
VIOLA DAVISI have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
VIOLA DAVISSometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
VIOLA DAVISYou can’t be hesitant about who you are.
VIOLA DAVISThat’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
VIOLA DAVISI’ve been in this business 25 years. I’ve been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway… I’ve seen the unemployment line a lot.
VIOLA DAVISI 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 DAVISIt feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
VIOLA DAVISSelf-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
VIOLA DAVISI don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.
VIOLA DAVISAnd this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
VIOLA DAVISAll 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.
VIOLA DAVISI love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
VIOLA DAVIS