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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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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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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Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
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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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If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And when I say somebody else, of course I mean Jason Bateman. He's born to play boring characters because he's such a bore. He's one of the most boring human beings.
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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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."
