Top 100 Viola Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#4. Hope is terrifying, Viola," he said. "No one wants to admit it, but it is.
Patrick Ness
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. And I feel her against me -
And I think Viola -
I think VIOLA! -
I think VIOLA!!!!
Patrick Ness
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Violists hate it when we violinists crack viola jokes.
Paula Yoo
#18. benedict tips out the door. the night dour and skanky with a rhumba of traffic. warily adjusting a long s/lick multicolored patch-leather jacket to cover ears. collecting himself before tilting forward/falling into rain's cool viola sting.
David N. Odhiambo
#19. I started off in drama, and there are so many women that I admire. Women in this industry are gladiators. Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Taraji Henson, Regina Hall, Regina King.
Bresha Webb
#20. Viola had a smile that could make the heavens open. She also had a frown of such scorn, it could send a man straight to hell.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#21. The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
Elliott Carter
#22. After making my stage debut aged nine as Macduff's small son in 'Macbeth,' I had played a number of parts, from 'Twelfth Night's Viola to 'The Merchant Of Venice's Portia'.
Felicity Kendal
#23. I'll find you
Keep calling for me, Viola
Cuz here I come.
Patrick Ness
#24. I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
Naturi Naughton
#25. II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.
Kris Allen
#26. If he hadn't been the father of her children, Viola might have admired Dominic for the way he was so easily able to absolve himself of all obligation simply by asserting his right to self-fulfilment.
Kate Atkinson
#28. Life is a chain of choices. Making the correct one is never easy."
"That's for sure," agreed Rocky.
"But if we didn't make difficult choices, right or wrong," said Mr. Veraldi, "we wouldn't learn anything worth knowing." Rocky Ryan and his viola teacher, Mr. Veraldi, in Bully at Ambush Corner.
Karen Mueller Coombs
#29. I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
Gavin Bryars
#30. The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola.
A.R. Rahman
#31. You starting to feel hope yet?" Viola asks, her voice curious.
"No," I say, fuddling my noise. "You?"
Her eyebrows are up but she shakes her head. "No, No."
"But we're going anyway."
"Oh, yeah," Viola says. "Hell or high water."
"It'll probably be both," I say.
Patrick Ness
#32. Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'"
"There's only forward," I repeat.
"Outward and up," she says.
Patrick Ness
#33. Her presence brought memories of such things as Bourbon roses, rubies, and tropical midnights; her moods recalled lotus-eaters and the march in "Athalie"; her motions, the ebb and flow of the sea; her voice, the viola.
Thomas Hardy
#34. Olivia: How does he love me?
Viola: With adoration, with fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.
William Shakespeare
#35. It's an important moment. I just feel like I want it to happen tonight, either for myself or Viola [Davis] so we can get past it, so it's not big news anymore. I mean, it is 2015. We have a black president.
Taraji P. Henson
#36. Whaddaya want?" growled Viola, our small, surly, octogenarian waitress.
What did I want? A job. A clue. A love.
"Two coffees," Len answered for me.
Coffee would do for now, I guess.
Megan McCafferty
#37. Viola felt as if she spent her life wading through a sea of ignorance, shallow but without a shore in sight.
Kate Atkinson
#38. Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.
Francis Thompson
#39. The more Viola forgot her mother, the more she missed her.
Kate Atkinson
#40. As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!
Jan Karon
#41. Viola De Lesseps: You have never spoken so well of him before.
William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.
Marc Norman
#42. If you're not careful, the viola can make the most awful screech,
Gayle Forman
#43. The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge
#44. Her breast was young, the nipples rosy. Cosimo just grazed it with his lips, before Viola slid away over the branches as if she were flying, with him clambering after her, and that skirt of hers always in his face
Italo Calvino
#45. The viola and the clarinet made for an interesting pairing: we had to imagine the accompaniment of other instruments, ideally a violin and a cello.
Nicholas Christopher
#46. My muses were all the incredible, iconic women of glamour in Hollywood that I have worked with over 15 years. Anjelica Huston, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lena Dunham, Viola Davis, Rihanna, Demi Moore ...
Zac Posen
#47. I liked 'The Help,' and I love Viola Davis. But I didn't think that film was a great film; I thought that was a very uneven film. I thought the Southern women were so caricatured that it was kind of like 'Harper Valley PTA' or something like that.
Robert Osborne
#48. If the infeckshun from the band takes Viola," I say, "you'll beg me to kill you after what I'll do to you."
"I believe you," says the Mayor.
Patrick Ness
#49. Sitting aimlessly in bedrooms- often on the bed itself- is another characteristic feature of the English holidays. The meal was over and it was only twenty five past seven. 'The evening stretches before us,' Viola said gloomily.
Barbara Pym
#50. Where lies your text?
Viola: In Orsino's bosom.
Olivia: In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
Viola: To answer by the method, in the first of his heart.
William Shakespeare
#51. So," he said, as he continued to pull on her arm, bringing her closer. "Do you accept my apology?"
Viola opened her mouth to say not yet,' because she couldn't afford to give up the power she currently held over him.
That was when he kissed her.
Isobel Irons
#52. Viola stood awkwardly, staring up at him. It annoyed her that he made her feel awkward. Viola Hextall was not awkward. Ever.
Kelly Bowen
#53. William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool?
Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player?
Marc Norman
#54. And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!
Kate Atkinson
#55. ('Why did you have children?' Bertie asked, later in their lives. 'Was it just the biological imperative to breed?' 'That's why everyone has children,' Viola said. 'They just dress it up as something more sentimental.') Viola
Kate Atkinson
#57. Where are you flying off to?' inquired Viola, rather sulkily; few sights are more annoying when we feel lazy than that of somebody bounding upstairs.
Stella Gibbons
#59. Viola Davis should be a household name. So should Angela Bassett.
Rutina Wesley
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. She smiled... and let loose a happy scream that seemed to release decades of insecurity, unhappiness, obsessiveness and worry.
Viola Shipman
#63. I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.
Viola Davis
#64. In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go
Saira Viola
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. I don't want anyone putting any limits on me.
Viola Davis
#71. The Snowflake Charm
Be As Unique As A Snowflake: Embrace All Your Dimensions
Viola Shipman
#72. I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
Viola Davis
#73. 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
#74. Do you believe there's hope at the end?"
"No, no, I dont, but im still going, you coming with me?
Patrick Ness
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#80. You can't be hesitant about who you are.
Viola Davis
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.
Bill Viola
#85. People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.
Bill Viola
#86. 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
#87. I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.
Bill Viola
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.
Viola Spolin
#92. 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
#93. The Dragonfly Charm
Embrace The Magic of Nature & Life Will Be Filled with Good Fortune
Viola Shipman
#94. 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
#95. The Tiara Charm
You Should Always Feel Like A Queen, Even for A Day
Viola Shipman
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. I am not a morning person, but I always work out - always.
Viola Davis
#99. 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
#100. There's only one way to tackle life, enjoy a day at the beach, and jump into a Great Lake: Headfirst!
Viola Shipman
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