Viola Davis Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

  Viola Davis

  Believe, People, The End Of The Day

• 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

  Writing, Escaping, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I don't think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.

  Viola Davis

  Thinking, People, Acting

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

• 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

  Acting, Naked, Hard

  "Viola Davis Exclusive Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 9, 2011.

• Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.

  Viola Davis

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

• 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

  School, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: aalbc.com

• I really want my acting to be definitive a lot of times, but I must feel like in any given moment there is a lot of things going on with Rose. I kept telling Denzel [Washington] throughout filming [Fences] that the house is her joy and her tomb.

  Viola Davis

  Rose, House, Joy

  Source: shadowandact.com

• I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like something else entirely. It felt like the difference between, I don't know, waiting tables and painting a great work of art. It's night and day. I didn't feel like it was even acting.

  Viola Davis

  Art, Night, Differences

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

• That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

  Viola Davis

  Acting, Actors, Acting Out

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

• Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

  Viola Davis

  Character, Self, Acting

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

• If you're a boxer, you want to get the ring with a Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali type. When you're acting, you want to get in with Meryl Streep, and that's what I did.

  Viola Davis

  Acting, Want, Boxers

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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