Viola Davis Quotes

Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

Viola Davis

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• There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Problem
  • Nothing
  • Against

• With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Day
  • Dance
  • Sunday

• Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Bad
  • Friend
  • Lonely

• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Contribution

• Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Director
  • Big
  • Platform

• When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Own
  • Office
  • My Own

• After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Camera

• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Chaos
  • Step
  • Boredom

• I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Simple
  • Respond
  • Complex

• Cloture is simply cutting off debate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Cutting
  • Debate
  • Off

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Thought

• The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Great
  • Business

• Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • World
  • Way
  • Gymnastics

• Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Ordinary

• I don't particularly like L.A.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Particularly

• When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun I say, 'Hi honey. Do you like girls? Do you like girls exclusively? Oh, good.'

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Boy

• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Action
  • Ethical
  • Pragmatic

• As a teacher and parent, I've had a very personal interest in seeking new ways of teaching. Like most other teachers and parents, I've been well aware painfully so, at times that the whole teaching/learning process is extraordinarily imprecise, most of the time a hit-and-miss operation. Students may not learn what we think we are teaching them and what they learn may not be what we intended to teach them at all.

  

  Betty Edwards
  • Parents
  • Teacher
  • Interest

• Hollywood is, of course, loaded with egos, but it's amazing to see how, despite the egos, those collaborators pull together and focus on telling a story rather than butt heads and sabotage what is extremely hard work and investment just because their ego apparently demands it.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Work
  • Together
  • Amazing

• Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Choices
  • Actors
  • Sick

• Spirituality is invisible. Never forget that. If you can see it, if it's dressed in funny robes, if it's up there to be looked at, if it's making a big performance of itself, it is not spirituality. It is ego.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Forget
  • Ego
  • Performances

• Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Actors
  • Ego
  • Vanity