Viola Davis is an American actress and producer. She has won the Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards. Viola Davis is the first African-American actress to achieve the “Triple Crown of Acting”. Below are some of the most inspiring Viola Davis quotes. She is also co-founder of JuVee Productions.
Viola Davis Quotes
- “All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them.” ─ Viola Davis
- “At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.” ─ Viola Davis
- “All you really need to do is shift people just a bit for a change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.” ─ 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
- “I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.” ─ Viola Davis
- “The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity.” ─ Viola Davis
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- “When you’re really passionate, you’re going to grab hold of every rope you see and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out.” ─ 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 would tell my younger self just be yourself—that who you are is good enough.” ─ Viola Davis
- “The one thing I feel is lacking in Hollywood today is an understanding of the beauty, the power, the sexuality, the uniqueness, the humor of being a regular Black woman.” ─ Viola Davis
- “Relationships change us and make us grow.” ─ Viola Davis
- “When you’re really passionate, you’re going to grab hold of every rope you see and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out.” ─ 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
- “You have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.” ─ Viola Davis
- “I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.” ─ Viola Davis
- “They say to serve is to love. I think to serve is to heal, too.” ─ Viola Davis
- “Every job I’ve ever gotten has transformed me in some way as an actor.” ─ Viola Davis
- “You can’t be hesitant about who you are.” ─ Viola Davis
- “When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.” ─ Viola Davis
- “People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It’s only through relationships. Relationships change us and make us grow.” ─ Viola Davis
- “Turning 50 is making me reflect on my life in a way that’s more compassionate and forgiving.” ─ Viola Davis
- “I mean, I’m a 46-year-old Black actress who doesn’t look like Halle Berry…and Halle Berry is having a hard time.” ─ Viola Davis
- The internal sexism within womanhood is very predominant in Hollywood because we all want to be successful. There’s a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable because that’s the formula that works. On an executive level. On a power level. And it’s not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.” ─ Viola Davis
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