Viola Davis Quotes

As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.

Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling - don't you?

Being an actor is not like any other job. It's not easy.

I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'

'Sacred Games' has actually turned out to be the most challenging experience of my acting career.

Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.

I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite

I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.

You have a lot of stages as an actor.

If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.

I don't care if people perceive me as always selling out because I'm doing a studio picture. For me, the whole thing is you should be diverse in your choices; that's the beauty of being an actor, you should be able to do that.

I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.

We're actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself.

As an actor, it's always been good to be working at all.

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.

I love being an actor and a job is a job, and I'm always happy to have a job.

At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.

You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.