Viola Davis Quotes

I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person.

As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

I'm just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I'm honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don't care what people say. I never cared about what people say.

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

I don't think I'm beautiful. I just think I can scrub up OK.

For me, it's about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you're trying too hard and I don't think that actually makes you look good... I've known from very early on that I don't look perfect.

I don't act to be popular or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me all the time and what I look like.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.

My actual desire is to be able to comfortably walk out of my house without any makeup on and feel as beautiful as I do when my makeup artist beats my face.

I wish we did, in a way, grow up in the forest and we didn't all just post bikini pictures and work out just to look good.

I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.

I don't take myself seriously, because there is so much more to life than just being good looking.

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.

You should see me without makeup.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

I find it funny that people now come up to me and say, 'Wow, you are absolutely gorgeous. I'm like, 'I was beautiful before I lost weight. Egotistically speaking, I thought I was amazing.'

The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.

I'm not interested in Botox or getting a facelift. There comes a point where you have to let go and accept that you are no longer the youngest and that you have other things to offer.

I'm a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it... um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind.

I often feel like a pretender when wearing makeup. The most beautiful features in a woman are her character and her experiences. Why hide that?

I'm still not aware that I'm good looking.

It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.