You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
Viola DavisIt's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.
Viola DavisI haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot.
Viola DavisActor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
Viola DavisI also tried to leave myself alone enough to be surprised by the news. That's when it had its potency. If I approach everything with joy and hope and love, which is what we all do. Every day we get up we're hoping that today is going to be the day that's going to get you over the hump. I tried to do that as much as I could. So then when all the news happens you see what she is made out of.
Viola Davis