I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish. A lot of lawyers or doctors who have names but absolutely no lives. You're going to get your three or four scenes; you're not going to be able to show what you can do.

Create free wallpaper (Make a wallpaper or screensaver out of this quote with your image)

I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish. A lot of lawyers or doctors who have names but absolutely no lives. You're going to get your three or four scenes; you're not going to be able to show what you can do. - Viola Davis

---

Related Authors
Zsa Zsa Gabor | Mae West | Marilyn Monroe | Uta Hagen | Amy Poehler | Nadia Buari | Daniel Webster | Alice Munro |

Related Quotes

The beauty of a thing is when it is done in its time.

Nicholas Duncan-Williams

Time Done Thing Beauty

---

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Acting Action Difficult Difficult Thing

---

Law 48: Assume Formlessness

Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power)

Formlessness Assume

---

Never count the days of pain. Make the days of pain count

Bad Boy Timz

Days Pain Never count

---

Ignorance is a big business.

Chef 187

Ignorance Big business

---

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

Bette Davis

The key Life Accepting challenges Someone stop

---

If you hate your enemies, enemies shine

Ayra Starr

Hate Enemies Shine

---

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

N. F. Simpson

Reality Illusion Created Lack

---

Nigeria does not need more activists. Nigeria needs more active citizens

Aisha Yesufu

Nigeria Citizen Active Activist

---

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Judith Butler

Lose Read Transformed World

---

All men can live together, if they wish to.

Josephine Baker

Men Live together Wish

---

You're at your best when you're authentic to your core.

Stevel Marc

Your best You're authentic Your core

---

I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish. A lot of lawyers or doctors who have names but absolutely no lives. You're going to get your three or four scenes; you're not going to be able to show what you can do. - Stevel Marc quotes