191 Quotes by Viola Davis

That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.

It’s not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It’s just a cultural understanding that you’re just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.

It’s harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness. They’re thinking and feeling the world, but they’re saying very little, so then you have to communicate it through your behavior.

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

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

I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

Sometimes there is no sugar-coating it. Sometimes you have to challenge people's belief systems in a progressive way.

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