Viola Davis Quotes

All I ever cared about was actors - toughest job in this business.

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

Being on set is the thing I love the most, and a lot of the things that come alongside acting and entertainment are the things I despise, to be quite honest.

I want to be an actor.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

The theatre show-biz types don't change much, no matter what era we're in. The question of how you balance being in show business with your personal life isn't very different.

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.

I was a stage-struck kid.

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

What I want to be is an actor, not a star.

Acting is very much an all-or-nothing job.

Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.

I'm going to be an actor.

I've always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn't be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought I'd play one in a movie! I started doing theater in middle school and tested for 'Victorious' before being in an episode of 'iCarly.'

Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be.

To get a movie star, you have to give them two hours of screen time.

When you get called to come in and audition for Tarantino, it's incredibly exciting.

There's not too many offers that come my way about being in a musical.

It's really hard to make a living as an actor. I'm grateful as I drive to work every morning.

I fought my way into an audition on 'Ghost.'

When we were doing 'The Office,' there was an area backstage where they worked on hair and makeup, and I was sitting there waiting to get ready to go on, and one of the writers went, 'I want you to audition for 'Bad Teacher.'' I went, 'Okay!'