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I love Viola Davis.
Marcia Clark / Prosecutor
Viola
Davis
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Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
Peter Greenaway / Film Director
Bills
Ten
Viola
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Viola Davis should be a household name. So should Angela Bassett.
Rutina Wesley / Film Actress
Angela
Viola
Davis
Household Name
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge / Comedian
Funny
Sarcasm
Sarcastic
Viola
Between
Burns
Difference
Longer
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It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.
Octavia Spencer / Actress
Tyson
Viola
Davis
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I was working with the likes of Steve McQueen, Matthew McConaughey, Viola Davis, just running the gamut.
Brian Tyree Henry /
Matthew
Mcqueen
Viola
Davis
Steve
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Viola Davis, she does have a lot of TV acting jobs, and she's also a very, very accomplished stage actress.
Aaron Stanford / Actor
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
Mahershala Ali / Actor
Viola
Davis
Perfect Example
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II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.
Kris Allen / Musician
High School
Littles
School
Ukulele
Viola
School Know High School
Grade
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I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
Omari Hardwick / Actor
Amazing
Broadway
Denzel
Theater
Viola
Davis
Beacon
Washington
Denzel Washington
Fences
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The first time I mentioned publicly that I had known Viola for some time, many people took it like Viola got me the job in 'Fences'.
Jovan Adepo /
Viola
Time Me People
Fences
Publicly
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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 / Actress
Dream
Night
Two
Viola
Helena
In Fact
Shakespeare
Twelfth
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I have a girl crush on Olivia Munn so much, especially on 'Newsroom.' And Cara Delevingne, but who doesn't love her face? Viola Davis is my acting crush.
Aja Naomi King / Actress
Girl
Acting
Crush
Olivia
Viola
Davis
Face
Her
Newsroom
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Viola Davis is just one of those actors who is never bad in anything. She could be in an awful film but you'd never come away from it saying she was bad.
Nish Kumar /
Just One
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I saw 'The Help' on DVD. I was blown away by Viola Davis: she really straddled that fine line in the plot between what was tragic and what was heart-warming.
Ruth Bradley /
Blown Away
Plot
Tragic
Viola
Davis
Blown
Fine Line
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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 / Composer
Oboes
Saxophone
Thinking
Viola
Writing
Alto
Cross
Louder
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Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
Patrick Ness / Author
Calling
Cuz
Viola
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Viola Davis is incredible - she's kind of the biggest career-wise inspiration for me. Brilliant actor, so intelligent, so strong. The path that she's made is incredible.
Laura Harrier /
Brilliant
Intelligent
Viola
Davis
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When I was very young I was never pretty or beautiful and didn't get the chance to play many parts I'd have loved to tackle: the great Shakespearean parts - Viola, Helena.
Prunella Scales /
Viola
Helena
Parts
Shakespearean
Tackle
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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 / Actor
Debut
Nine
Venice
Viola
Aged
Macbeth
Merchant
Twelfth
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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 /
Tyson
Viola
Davis
Hall
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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 / Composer
Different Things
Instruments
Pairs
Viola
Cello
Piece
Quartet
Third
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I'm old enough to have lived through a time when Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Viola Liuzzo, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and others died so people of color could vote.
Thomas Hauser /
Andrew
Goodman
Luther
Viola
James
Martin
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King
Old Enough
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It can be very thrilling being able to witness Viola Davis do her thing for hours and hours, but there are also no windows, and you're just in a room for fourteen hours trying to keep it together.
Liza Weil / Actress
Fourteen
Thrilling
Viola
Witness
Davis
Hours And Hours
Windows
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Viola Davis, Patti Smith, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Julianne Moore. I could go on forever listing names. However... my greatest inspirations have, without a doubt, been my teachers, friends, and family.
Maya Hawke /
Doubt
Forever
Viola
Davis
Teachers
Friends And Family
However
Inspirations
Listing
Moore
Patti Smith
Smith
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I carry around a black leather Moleskine journal all the time. And I always write ideas down, especially when I'm on set and working with actors like Jeremy Irons and Viola Davis and learning from them.
Alden Ehrenreich / Actor
Journal
Leather
Viola
Time Learning Always
Davis
Irons
Jeremy
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We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'
Yvonne Strahovski / Actress
Bye
Productions
Viola
Ado
Birdie
Musicals
Oliver
Twelfth
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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 / Film Actress
Actors
Exhilarating
Kind
Projects
Speak
Surprising
Tenacity
Viola
Davis
Cate Blanchett
Charlize Theron
Marion
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I've been playing the viola since I was 6 years old, and then I decided to switch it up a bit, so I've been playing the violin since I was 11. I started playing the piano when I was 11, and I started playing the guitar when I was 10.
Anthony Gonzalez / American Football Wide Receiver
Viola
Switch
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I would absolutely love to do something with Viola Davis or Meryl Streep. I just think both of those women fall so deep into their characters that you are no longer looking at the actresses, you are looking at the characters they embraced.
Meagan Tandy /
Viola
Davis
Embraced
Meryl
Meryl Streep
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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 / Actor
Great Film
Pta
Southern
Viola
Love Women Great
Davis
Liked
Uneven
Valley
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Having brought diversity to the air in the way that we have with Kerry Washington and Viola Davis toplining their shows, and then shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' and 'Black-ish,' have been very important. I look forward to continuing in that vein.
Channing Dungey /
Boat
Continuing
Viola
Davis
Vein
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I love Viola Davis. I call her 'Queen.' I think she's phenomenal. She's so raw and so bold. When I first saw her was in 'Doubt,' and she just changed everything for me. Her performance was unlike anything I had ever seen before, and I think she's phenomenal.
Anna Diop /
Changed
Doubt
Phenomenal
Viola
Davis
Love Me Queen
Bold
Unlike
Saw
Queen
Performance
Raw
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I didn't tell my kids, 'You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.' They chose these things on their own, and I don't think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.
Angela Duckworth /
Autonomy
Crucial
Fostering
Viola
Chose
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I always felt that, when I saw Denzel or Viola do scenes in their past films or past projects, that if it's a heavy scene, and it's requiring a lot of emotional weight, that we would have nothing but silence and incense burning in between takes just to keep things quiet.
Jovan Adepo /
Burning
Denzel
Heavy
Incense
Quiet
Silence
Viola
Requiring
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Cute
Admiring
Angela
Cute Girl
Viola
Davis
People Comedy More
Distinct
Same Thing
Varied
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
Octavia Spencer / Actress
Believe
Believe In Yourself
Bread
Jessica
Promise
Stones
Thinking
Viola
Best Work Believe
Sliced
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I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister.
Eric Dickerson / Football Player
Family
Sister
Abortion
Adopted
Aunt
Mama
Mother
Raised
Viola
Great Mother Me
Within
Family Great Me
Named
Her
Refused
She
Tried
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