Viola Davis Quotes
You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
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Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.
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Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.
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It's not enough to vent about what you don't like on social media. I would ask everyone who can, men included, to get involved in an organisation actively working for gender equality.
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My wife is a very attractive woman, and she's always worried about her diet. But she doesn't pay attention to me, and I don't pay attention to her. She's a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy.
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I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen. I wouldn't pay attention in school, or I'd sing in class and get in trouble - I'd always get in trouble. Theater is the only thing I always came back to.
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I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning 'Who am I?' I'm hooked.
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You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."
