191 Quotes by Viola Davis

The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don’t give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what’s extraordinary about you.

I guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because 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.

And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script.

I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.

Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.

It’s always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.

Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.

I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.

If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.