Viola Davis Quotes

I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things. So, I guess that when I walk into a room, I bring all those things to a role, and I've always just simply seen myself as an actor.

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• People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Party
  • Failure

• We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Great
  • Success
  • Perfect

• Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Wants

• As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Know
  • Proud
  • Band

• At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Live
  • Society

• I love putting people to work of color.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• I grew up in the small town of Greenfield Center, New York, which is in the foothills of the Adirondacks not far from the city of Saratoga Springs. It is a place I love, close to the forests and the mountains.

  

  Joseph Bruchac
  • Up
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  • City

• I did the 'Crook and Chase' show while I was in Nashville. They asked me if I had a church background, and when I said I was born a Baptist, that got the audience on fire. They must have all been Baptists.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Church
  • Fire
  • Baptism

• That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.

  

  Carole King
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay. It's actually quite a compliment if you're something that people can stand against.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • People
  • Record
  • Regime

• The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Freedom
  • Way
  • Punk

• You make me feel like a natural man

  

  Carole King
  • Men
  • Feels
  • Natural

• It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.

  

  Carole King
  • Difficult
  • Stuff
  • Evaluate

• Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Painting

• Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is. I haven't worked with Mike Leigh, but I know him very well and there's something open in his eyes about what's in front of him. And the same is true of Alfonso in a Mexican, mad way. There's an enthusiastic response to something. Neil Jordan, the same, when he gets excited . You just want to know there's a human being in there.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • True
  • Way
  • Eyes

• I would love to do a period piece. That would be really cool. And also like to do something transformative and have to transform yourself physically to become that character. Any interesting, fun roles, I'm attracted to.

  

  Tracy Spiridakos
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• You cannot assume that somebody can define you. You cannot assume that the other person is right. No matter how they say it to you, no matter with how much force they say, ‘Oh my god, you’ll never make it; oh my god, you’re not bright; you could never do this’—that’s one person. I can’t tell you how many people told me I would never be an actor.

  

  Henry Winkler
  • People
  • Matter
  • Actors

• To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Lies
  • Blood
  • Image

• I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things. So, I guess that when I walk into a room, I bring all those things to a role, and I've always just simply seen myself as an actor.

  

  Viola Davis
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