Quote

Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

Viola Davis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Viola Davis
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 11
Actress
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
St. Matthews
South Carolina
La Viola Davis
Life
Infuse
Resonates
Creativity
Real
Work

More quotes by Viola Davis

Image
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.
Viola Davis
Image
I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.
Viola Davis
Image
It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.
Viola Davis
Image
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
Image
I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like something else entirely. It felt like the difference between, I don't know, waiting tables and painting a great work of art. It's night and day. I didn't feel like it was even acting.
Viola Davis
Image
I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
Viola Davis
Image
I've been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you're comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone's going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.
Viola Davis
Image
We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.
Viola Davis
Image
I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
Viola Davis
Image
I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.
Viola Davis
Image
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
Viola Davis
Image
If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.
Viola Davis
Image
I think that I'm coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
Viola Davis
Image
And classically not beautiful is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
Viola Davis
Image
When a director can give you a word that allows you to feel less tense about yourself, to make you feel like you indeed are good enough before you even get to the work, you can't ask for anything more than that.
Viola Davis
Image
I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different.
Viola Davis
Image
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
Viola Davis
Image
When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
Viola Davis
Image
I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.
Viola Davis
Image
Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
Viola Davis