I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
VIOLA DAVISI just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”
VIOLA DAVISThey 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 DAVISThey 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 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 DAVISOrdinary 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. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
VIOLA DAVISWhen you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
VIOLA DAVISYou can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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 DAVISAnd 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.
VIOLA DAVISIn my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.
VIOLA DAVISI am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
VIOLA DAVISI needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
VIOLA DAVISSelf-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
VIOLA DAVISIt feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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 DAVISI’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
VIOLA DAVIS