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Viola Davis Quotes

You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you're working. You have to even dare to fail, even in a scene, whatever it is.

Viola Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: August 11, 1965

Topics

Imagination You Dare Whatever Fail

I like to change people's sense of what's possible.

Jim Yong Kim

Change People Possible Sense Like

I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

Andrew Pyper

Life Law My Life Doing Quit Out

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

Andrew Cuomo

Good Long Politicians Because Very

Why wouldn't I like to walk into a room full of people who are dying to hear everything I say?

Robert Picardo

Walk People Say Why Dying Room

This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Good Me Comedy Acting Down Play

You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.

Robert Gottlieb

New York Parents You New Out Act

I usually go to the swimming pool if I want to swim.

Song Hye-kyo

Swimming Pool Go Want Swimming Pool

I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.

Michael Parenti

Stupid Think Confused Brilliant

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.

Michael Stipe

Feet Would Six Wanted Corpse Really

In my view, until the U.S. tax policy is revised, not just tax extenders but the reform of tax policy, it makes it very attractive for us to invest on acquisition overseas.

Louis R. Chenevert

View Tax Policy Attractive Us Just

I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.

Douglas Tompkins

Work Short Long Getting Celebrations

I wouldn't necessarily say I'm arrogant. I'm just confident.

Draymond Green

Confident Say Arrogant Just