If you're a boxer, you want to get the ring with a Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali type. When you're acting, you… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?" — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I really want my acting to be definitive a lot of times, but I must feel like in any given moment there… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
When I go home, I am a slug. I want to do everything completely opposite of what I do on the red… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
There are all these awards that you've never heard of, and you get nominated, and suddenly you're at these awards shows, so… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The internal sexism within womanhood is very predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be successful. There's a plug to it:… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Sometimes people come in as a director, and they just want the result, and they barely want that to tell you the… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I always say that, like a scientist or anyone, you always want to be the problem-solver. You feel like, if you solve… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
You see all the young girls, and they're so skinny. I actually don't even twirl anymore. They say, "Twirl, let us see… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds… — Viola Davis Copy Share
I was bullied at school. The black girl in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in 1973. There'd be 8 or 10 boys; I would count… — Viola Davis Copy Share
That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves. — Viola Davis Copy Share
I think that's why August [Wilson] named her Rose [in "Fences"]; I really do. She's a rose in her sweetness and her kindness and… — Viola Davis Copy Share
When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get… — Viola Davis Copy Share
I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean… — Viola Davis Copy Share
I tell my daughter every morning, 'Now, what are the two most important parts of you?' And she says, 'My head and my heart.'… — Viola Davis Copy Share
I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color. — Viola Davis Copy Share
That's always the biggest surprise when people meet me: how buoyant I am and how fun and light I am. — Viola Davis Copy Share
When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get… — Viola Davis Copy Share
It was hard, that confrontation scene [in "Fences"], that was a hard one. I felt like it was relentless, I never felt like I… — Viola Davis Copy Share
![“I really want my acting to be definitive a lot of times, but I must feel like in any given moment there is a lot of things going on with Rose. I kept telling Denzel [Washington] throughout filming [Fences] that the house is her joy and her tomb.” quote by Viola Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c1/viola-davis-1174_acting_i-really-want-my-acting-to-be-definitive_1090517.png)
