Top 100 Viola Quotes
#1. Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.
Viola Davis
#2. 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 facts of your character.
Viola Davis
#3. She smiled... and let loose a happy scream that seemed to release decades of insecurity, unhappiness, obsessiveness and worry.
Viola Shipman
#4. I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.
Viola Davis
#5. In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go
Saira Viola
#6. Now, a lot of people may be surprised at that, but I'm very dedicated to working out. Usually, it's running. It clears my mind, totally. I get on the treadmill, which I just bought, and I run on that for about 40-45 minutes.
Viola Davis
#8. It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.
Viola Spolin
#9. I've had an amazing life. One filled with blessings I could never have imagined.
Depressed is the last thing I am. Realistic, yes. Sad, never.
Viola Shipman
#10. I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well.
Lupita Nyong'o
#11. The worst thing in the world is to have regrets. You will always have a few, but they shouldn't be ones that keep you up at night.
Viola Shipman
#12. I don't want anyone putting any limits on me.
Viola Davis
#13. Nancy fell in love with Viola at first sight of her. A coup de foudre, she said, more intense and overwhelming than any form of romantic love. Mother and daughter were each a world to the other, complete and unassailable.
Kate Atkinson
#14. The Snowflake Charm
Be As Unique As A Snowflake: Embrace All Your Dimensions
Viola Shipman
#15. I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
Viola Davis
#16. It's up to us to remember how multifaceted we are and to celebrate all those odd little angles we have which make us who we are.
Viola Shipman
#17. Do you believe there's hope at the end?"
"No, no, I dont, but im still going, you coming with me?
Patrick Ness
#18. 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 doing it, I'm miserable.
Viola Davis
#19. Stop thinking that nuns are sweet and kind like Maria in The Sound of Music. That's just a movie. Think of the evil old bruja in 'Hansel and Gretal.
Viola Canales
#20. Why are you covering your breasts?"
Turning her back to him, she stepped into her dress.
"Why are you so interested in my breasts?"
"I am only interested in them because you hide them," he informed her. "I would not find them interesting if you would stop wearing clothing.
Viola Rivard
#21. 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 going do unless you're faced with it.
Viola Davis
#23. You can't be hesitant about who you are.
Viola Davis
#24. A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
Bill Viola
#25. Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
Bill Viola
#26. This charm is a reminder to live a life in which you become a person of many dimensions. Only that way will you become a whole, happy person.
Viola Shipman
#27. Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.
Bill Viola
#28. People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.
Bill Viola
#29. I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we'll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
Viola Davis
#30. I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.
Bill Viola
#31. When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.
Viola Davis
#33. Hope is terrifying, Viola," he said. "No one wants to admit it, but it is.
Patrick Ness
#34. You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.
Bill Viola
#35. To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.
Viola Davis
#36. First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.
Viola Spolin
#37. 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 thing that's perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that's done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!
Viola Davis
#38. The Dragonfly Charm
Embrace The Magic of Nature & Life Will Be Filled with Good Fortune
Viola Shipman
#39. I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.
Bill Viola
#40. The Tiara Charm
You Should Always Feel Like A Queen, Even for A Day
Viola Shipman
#41. We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
Viola Davis
#42. The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is flowers and kings, Is Solomon's temple, poets, Nineveh.
Viola Meynell
#43. I am not a morning person, but I always work out - always.
Viola Davis
#44. William Shakespeare: I have a wife, yes, and I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps. You needed no wife come from Stratford to tell you that, and yet, you let me come to your bed.
Viola De Lesseps: Calf-love. I loved the writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.
Marc Norman
#45. Viola to Duke Orsino: 'I'll do my best
To woo your lady.'
[Aside.] 'Yet, a barful strife! Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.
William Shakespeare
#46. I've been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you're comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone's going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.
Viola Davis
#47. There's only one way to tackle life, enjoy a day at the beach, and jump into a Great Lake: Headfirst!
Viola Shipman
#48. And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do with it."
VIOLA
"Looks like I'm doing fine," I say.
Patrick Ness
#49. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.
Viola Davis
#50. They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
Viola Davis
#51. They say the two most important days in a persons life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
Viola Davis
#52. It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.
Viola Davis
#53. In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.
Bill Viola
#54. But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them."
Viola: "Thy reason, man?"
Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.
William Shakespeare
#55. You can't schedule fun, and you can't put it off for the future. At some point, you just have to say to heck with everything and dive in headfirst.
Viola Shipman
#56. Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don't have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter's] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
Viola Davis
#57. Josh had a movie star jewfro and a smug little grin
Saira Viola
#58. It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
Viola Davis
#59. He's a woman.
He's a grown woman
He's a old woman.
Patrick Ness
#60. Don't initiate! Follow the initiator! Follow the follower.
Viola Spolin
#61. I don't care how much money he (Frank Viola) makes. He can have my locker, I'll take him to all the best restaurants and show him New York. He can even have my wife, but he can't have my number, no way.
Dwight Gooden
#62. 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 people, then I would prefer not to do it.
Viola Davis
#63. We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.
Patrick Ness
#64. I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.
Viola Davis
#65. We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?"
"I hope not," I say
Patrick Ness
#66. I came back from vacation and I ate everything. I mean I'm sipping cocktails by the pool, thinking I'm a size 2. And now, you know, my dress is tight. So, I need it, too. I always need to remind myself: It's okay.
Viola Davis
#67. My mother says we're supposed to make mistakes. That's the way we learn. Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.
Karen Mueller Coombs
#68. There's always a choice," Viola says by my side.
"Oh, people like to say that," the Mayor says. "It makes them feel better.
Patrick Ness
#69. Everyone loves a murder, eh? Villains in the night, tragic heroines splattered in gore. Better than an opera. Bloody vultures.
Viola Carr
#70. Talent by association made him nauseous
Saira Viola
#71. At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
Viola Davis
#72. The only things we can control are our happiness, our destiny, our impact on others. Rest is up to God.
Viola Shipman
#73. Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become stageworthy.
Viola Spolin
#74. That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
Viola Davis
#75. I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Blythe Danner
#76. All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.
Viola Davis
#77. Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity ... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
Bill Viola
#78. Are there women in your world now that have given you those lessons in confidence? Oh absolutely. Meryl [Streep] does it all the time. I think she does it in a way that she doesn't even understand or think she's doing it.
Viola Davis
#79. With him big Phil from Notting Hill an old "face" from the sixties a pin up gangster with a "mars bar" weal scraping his left cheek and of course two "wag" slags in tow trussed up like French Poodles with "Bratz babe" stares and Gucci Handbags
Saira Viola
#81. Kara didn't feel like a dial and go coke pusher but she was a supremely good hustler
Saira Viola
#82. And I feel her against me -
And I think Viola -
I think VIOLA! -
I think VIOLA!!!!
Patrick Ness
#83. There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.
Bill Viola
#84. Live your Art. Don't think about it.
Bill Viola
#85. I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?
Viola Davis
#86. I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick.
Viola Davis
#87. A Harvey Nicks chick with throwaway morals and a trustfund appetite.
Saira Viola
#88. I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I was a singer songwriter, writing for Disney and Sesame Street. I believe in perfect rhymes - no cheating!
Sarah Weeks
#89. I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"
Viola Davis
#90. He was a boom boom shake the room " kind of guy
Saira Viola
#91. Viola was just as passionate in her rage as she was in her desire, just as stubborn in hate as she had been in love.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#92. Do what makes you happy. It sounds so simple and yet it's so hard, because few of us do. We live out of fear. We live for others, their hopes and expectations. We do what makes everyone else happy.
Viola Shipman
#93. One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.
Bill Viola
#94. The Ice Cream Cone Charm
You Will Never Work A Day Once You Discover A Passion That Makes Your Life Rich & Sweet
Viola Shipman
#95. Viola hadn't seen Sunny for nearly ten years and in the interim he had turned into a complete human being. ("Perhaps the two things aren't unrelated," Bertie said.)
Kate Atkinson
#96. The Loon Charm
To A Life Filled with A Love Whose Voice Always Calls You Home
Viola Shipman
#97. The world is fine and everything is normal and then, bang, you just get bowled over by the wrathful deities somehow. That happens in very small ways and happens in very large ways when you have a major conflagration in the world. It's another cycle of existence of human beings.
Bill Viola
#98. It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.
Viola Davis
#99. Martyrdom is a lonely business.
Jukebox
Saira Viola
#100. In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one.
Bill Viola
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