Viola Davis Quotes

Recognition has brought me more work, because your name suddenly comes to mind when some directors are trying to cast a character. And my stage work has specifically enabled people to have faith that I can handle a role, even when it's not specifically written for an African-American. So, I'd have to say that recognition brings work. A successful movie brings more work, and that been the biggest blessing.

Viola Davis

Quotes to Explore

We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

Hanya Yanagihara
- Writing
- Book
- True
I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

Maajid Nawaz
- Family
- Know
- Immigrant
I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist
- Long
- Art
- Remember
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

Ida B. Wells
- Nothing
- Now
- Without
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Ada Lovelace
- May
- Say
- Flowers
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde
- Thing
- Moderation
- Excess