Viola Davis Quotes

If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.

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• I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Think
  • Actually
  • Radical

• We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • American
  • Play
  • Band

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • People
  • Know
  • Sports

• I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Children
  • Control
  • Taxes

• I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Think
  • Scary
  • Something

• It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Reality
  • Gay
  • Leader

• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Birthday
  • Celebrate

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Look

• There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • Control
  • Government

• In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

  

  Sallust
  • Live
  • Art
  • May

• If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Fast

• I was a filmy kid. I was two when I faced the camera for the first time. My parents realised it pretty early, and I'm really thankful to them for their support and help.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Help
  • Pretty

• The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • True
  • Nature
  • Soul

• A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Dark
  • Poem
  • Redeem

• Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • People
  • Long
  • Home

• I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Inspired

• How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Truth
  • Rest
  • Lies

• We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • World
  • American
  • War

• TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Game
  • Play
  • Ready

• If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Opportunity
  • Play