Author: Viola Davis

Quotes

The reason I became an actress is because I wanted my acting to reflect life as it is. I want to put truth on the screen. I want real women to see real women on the screen.

The reason I became an actress is because I wanted my acting to reflect life as it is. I want to put truth on the screen. I want real women to see real women on the screen.

- Viola Davis

Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.

Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.

- Viola Davis

What excites me is just taking some time to breathe in life. The mundane is very exciting.

What excites me is just taking some time to breathe in life. The mundane is very exciting.

- Viola Davis

There's no prerequisites to worthiness. You're born worthy, and I think that's a message a lot of women need to hear.

There's no prerequisites to worthiness. You're born worthy, and I think that's a message a lot of women need to hear.

- Viola Davis

Sometimes 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.

Sometimes 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 Davis

The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.

The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.

- Viola Davis

Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.

Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.

- 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.

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

I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean something to someone means a lot to me.

I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean something to someone means a lot to me.

- Viola Davis

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