The best Quotes by Viola Davis

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 think I've lived long enough to understand that plans really are very overrated.

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.

I know that love is real when it's not convenient, when it's not selfish, when it's challenged, sometimes even if it's not reciprocated.

The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face - it's not a smile, it's not a frown. I swear to you, that's the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, 'I cannot believe how God has blessed me.'

Annalise: "Oh, hell no."
Tegan: "I told you. He's the surprise witness."
Annalise: "Dead witness as soon as I get my hands on him."

There's not a day that goes by that I don't lie to my clients. Call it unethical or illegal. I just call it smart.

Think carefully, everything after this moment will not only determine your career but life. You can spend it in a corporate office drafting contracts and hitting on chubby paralegals before finally putting a gun in your mouth or you can join my firm and become someone you actually like. So decide: do you want the job or not?

Choose your husband carefully, Ms. Pratt. You'll only have yourself to blame if it ends badly.

Me not paying attention to you is the best compliment you could ever get. 'Cause that means I don't have to worry about you. Go back to the office and stop being needy.

I'll protect you, Asher, but we need to protect Bonnie too. That's what we do for people that we love, right?

Don't you dare smile. The only reason I haven't fired you is 'cause I can't be in two places at once. Screw up again, you're gonna be the next dead body in this house.

Let me help you. Let me help you. Because if you do, I promise you will get away with this.

What's the opposite of midas touch? Because that's my gift of turning everything around me into ass.

This is criminal law 100 or as I prefer to call it "How to get away with murder".

Do you want to keep your business or do you want to go to jail for being a negligent sl*t?

Whatever you say to the police can and will be misconstrued to support the prosecution. So when in doubt, shut your mouth.

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to South Carolina - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Stop that! I'm your boss...- uhm: husband!

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

I came out of my mum's stomach going, "I want to be an actor!"

We think too much and feel too little.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

I only drink with people I like. When meeting people I don't like, I drink right before.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.