Viola Davis Quotes

It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.

Viola Davis

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Remember
  • Things
  • Going

• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Fan
  • Absolutely
  • Ron

• When all are wrong, everyone is right.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Everyone

• I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Society
  • Community

• Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Inspiration

• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • People
  • Fall
  • Easy

• I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Language
  • Smile

• I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

  

  Earl Warren
  • People
  • Man
  • Sports

• I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Fighting

• But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Ambition

• Chemical weapons simply have no place in the 21st century. Progress in this vital area will help generate momentum to meet our goal of eliminating all weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Help
  • Progress
  • Goal

• My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Him

• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Taken

• The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Past

• Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Taken
  • New

• I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • History
  • End
  • Conflict

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

  

  Lord North
  • Men
  • May
  • Popular

• Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Life
  • Important
  • Friends

• To do what I love every day and have the support of the fans, it does not happen like this all the time, so it is important to be thankful... I know it doesn't last forever, and we have to get it while we can.

  

  Cole Swindell
  • Time
  • Important
  • Support

• quoting her producer 'The network is concerned. They're concerned about the fullness of your face. They think you're really overweight and you're going to have to do something about it.' I didn't know what to say to that. I always thought I was decent looking; I had no idea that I was a giant face taking over America! HERE COMES THE FACE!!

  

  Margaret Cho
  • America

• It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Important
  • Opportunity
  • Wonderful