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Viola Davis Quotes

Sometimes there is no sugar-coating it. Sometimes you have to challenge people's belief systems in a progressive way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Challenge People You Sometimes Way

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War Nothing Glamorous About

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

Jennifer Garner

Television Meant To Be Play Movies

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.

Time People World Potential Picture

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

Politics You Feeling Find Right Out

Film is forever.

There has never been a failure of a currency board anywhere in the world. These are tough systems, and when I say they are foolproof, that's exactly the case.

Failure World Tough Say Never Been

I wouldn't want to do a whole movie with effects.

Want Whole Movie Effects

I used to watch 'SNL' when I was babysitting, after I put the kids to bed. It was the Gilda Radner and Bill Murray era. I loved it.

Loved Bed Watch Used Kids Era

Something that really helps when it comes to writing songs is you start to notice how children learn and how we all had to learn in the first place, starting from the ground up. It gives you a new perspective.

Children Perspective Writing Start

Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is - to how I would play it. It took me a while to get rid of 'Oh, they want it this way, so I'm going to do it how they want it.'

Christian Camargo

Marriage Vision Words Me Play Want

When I hear people say that they don't think that I can do something or they don't think I belong somewhere, that's all it takes for me to prove them wrong, and it's motivation.

People Me Think Motivation I Can

I'm simply here to say guns should be owned by responsible people, and there should be high tests and a high bar to prove your responsibility.

Responsibility People Say Prove High

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