Viola Davis Quotes

Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

Viola Davis

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• My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Different
  • Dream

• When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Opportunity

• Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Opportunity
  • Marketing
  • Never Forget

• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Rest

• Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Team
  • Support
  • Winning

• I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • People
  • Think
  • Like

• I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • World
  • Women
  • Opportunity

• I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Opportunity
  • Always
  • Someone

• Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Opportunity
  • Growing

• Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • inspirational

• I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • People
  • Winning
  • Goal

• I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Why

• I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Winning
  • Prize
  • Magical

• Through Gateway to Work, we can provide more of the workers our businesses need to thrive, and we can help give more of our families the opportunity to work their way to self-sufficiency and into the middle class.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Work
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• I embrace each moment as an opportunity for a miracle.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Opportunity
  • Moment
  • Miracle

• 'Griot' is a French word which means, you know, really, literally, 'cry.' You know, like the town crier. You know, they come in and say, you know, 'It's nine o'clock; everything is cool.' You know, 'President Bush is a fool.' I mean, stuff like that just to tell you. But for the kind of, the African thing is called djali.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Cool
  • Fool

• I want to drink life to the dregs, to enlarge myself to the absolute limits of my being - and to strive for a society in which everyone -regardless of race, creed, color and especially religious conviction - has the same exhilarating raison d'être, and the same opportunity to fulfill it.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Life
  • Society
  • Opportunity

• I'm a 40-year-old, and I have a 5-year-old kid. I don't want to be unhealthy. I want to be around for as long as I can.

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • Long

• Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Opportunity
  • Winning