Viola Davis is an American actress who is the first Black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award as the Lead Actress and brought tears to the room when she recited the same sentence.Since then, she has not only become an icon but also received various awards including a Golden Globe Award, Academy Award, and Tony Awards. Here is a compilation of the most inspirational Viola Davis quotes for you!Viola Davis Inspirational QuotesThe following is a list of Viola Davis quotes that will motivate you to achieve your dreams and goals.“When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.”“I own my story. I own my failures. I’m not interested in being perfect. That’s how I deal [with stress]. I don’t put on a mask.”“You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.”“But what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly. What we do as Black women are to take the worst situations and create from that point.”“My favorite saying in the world is, ‘The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.’ I am telling you, I have spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin.”“I would like to say that I’m a walking poster board for feminism and women’s liberation, but there are things that I do in my life that deeply, deeply fall short of being a statement for being a strong woman.”“When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.”“Vanity destroys your work. That’s the one thing you have to let go of as an actor. I don’t care how sexy or beautiful any woman is. At the end of the day, she has to take her makeup off. At the end of the day, she’s more than just pretty.”- 2014, The New York Times.“I see a lot of sexy women who are hard, cold, look like they have windswept hair and lip gloss and light makeup when they say it’s no makeup.”“They say the two most important days in a persons life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.”“I believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are, truly being who you are. And I’ve spent far too long apologizing for that—my age, my color, my lack of classical beauty—that now at the age of, well, at the age of 46, I’m very proud to be Viola Davis, for whatever it’s worth”“I would tell my younger self just be yourself—that who you are is good enough.”“What keeps me in the business is hope, and that’s the hope that women of color are also a part of the narrative, that our stories are just as potent, because we also have the power of transformation. We also have the power to be quirky, and sexy, and different, funny, heartfelt and all of those things.”- 2011, ELLE Women In Hollywood.“Living out loud is living a life that’s bigger than yourself. Living out loud is long after you’re gone –you leave something on this Earth that’s bigger than yourself.”“And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.””“The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.”“All 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.”“Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.”“Forgive yourself — every minute of the day, every day, that would be number one.”Viola Davis Quotes About ActingThese Viola Davis quotes concern the acting career of the famous actress and producer, Viola Davis.(Check out the most interesting Viola Davis quotes about acting.)“Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity.”- 2016, ELLE.“You can’t shine if you have two lines in the background as a bus driver. You can only shine if you’re included in the narrative, and narratives start when you put pen to paper and you use your imagination. You just tell a story. That’s all you do. You tell a story.”“As an actor, every opportunity, every role, everything that I do is an opportunity to have someone have a human experience with my work”“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.”- 2012, Newsweek.“It’s like all of our humanity has been washed out. We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth tellers.”- 2012, The Travis Smiley Show.“I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent”“I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it’s a very vulnerable thing that we are asked to do.”“The TV and film business is saturated with people who think they’re writing something human when it’s really a gimmick.”“I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category. I thought it was so progressive.”“I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am”“Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.”“You’re only reduced to a cliche if you don’t humanize a character.”“Your only job as an artist is to put the truth out there into the world.”“Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.”“Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don’t have much of one, and my husband doesn’t have much of one, so it’s good.”“Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.”“It’s a dream to be able to just play a multi-faceted character.”“The black artist cannot live in a revisionist place. The black artist can only tell the truth about humanity. Humanity is messy. People are messy. Caucasian actors know that. They understand that.”- January 6, 2017, www.elle.com“I don’t think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.”Famous Viola Davis QuotesHere is a list of some of the most popular and famous quotes stated by the actress and producer, Viola Davis.“The internal sexism within womanhood is very predominant in Hollywood because we all want to be successful.”“And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script.”“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.”“Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!”“This is the richest country in the world. There’s no reason kids should be going to school hungry.”“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.”“You can’t be hesitant about who you are.”“Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.”“I would love to do really great work and for women who are marginalised to see me as an inspiration.”“I could create my own family and I could create it intentionally with what I had learned.”“I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am”“Turning 50 is making me reflect on my life in a way that’s more compassionate and forgiving.”“The obstacle blocking me was a four-hundred-year-old racist system of oppression and my own feeling of utter aloneness.”“It’s always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.”“When people come into the theater, whether it’s the screen or the stage, they’ve gotta be transported and transformed.”“Acting, it’s the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.”“‘Rebel’ is not a word I would describe for myself, but I feel like I was a total rebel being an actor. It made me feel like there was something in me, a passion, a love - and that I didn’t just squelch it.”“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 is an American actress who is the first Black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award as the Lead Actress and brought tears to the room when she recited the same sentence.
