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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 21 quotes by Viola Davis Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) is an American actress. Beginning her career on the stage, Davis won a Tony and a Drama Desk Award for her role in August Wilson's King Hedley II (2001). She won a second Drama Desk Award for Intimate Apparel (2004), followed by a second Tony and a third Drama Desk Award for her role in Fences (2010). Davis has played supporting roles in several films, including Traffic (2000), Solaris (2002), Knight and Day... Read full biography of Viola Davis → 1 2 Ctrl → Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can... → 0 Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's... → 0 Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't... → 0 We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. 0 In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're... → 0 Tyler Perry's 'Madea Goes to Jail!' Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I've ever done in my career, that's the only... → 0 Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the... → 0 That's why I do what I do, and that's why I wanted to be an actress from the time I was six years old. If I can't effectively move... → 0 And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their... → 0 It's like any great medicine that works. It tastes absolutely lousy going down, but ultimately helps and heals you. And that's what Juilliard... → 0 And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. 0 I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you... → 0 I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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