Viola Davis Quotes
When I go home, I am a slug. I want to do everything completely opposite of what I do on the red carpet. I like to take off all my makeup, put on a t-shirt, be completely unassuming and just do stuff with my husband and my daughter.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I went a few times, but I felt there was no way that any therapist could understand my particular torment and also felt in some respects they were sicker than I was.
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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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In the end of the day, you are human. Film is a job which is not an individual job; you have tons and tons of people behind you - you have a whole crew of people working. But, an actor is the face of a film, so you get all of the good things, but you get the bad things, also.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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When I go home, I am a slug. I want to do everything completely opposite of what I do on the red carpet. I like to take off all my makeup, put on a t-shirt, be completely unassuming and just do stuff with my husband and my daughter.
