Viola Davis movie quotes

“I told you, a watched pot never boils.”

Viola Davis - Rose Maxson

“Your daddy wanted you to be everything he wasn't, and at the same time, he wanted you to be everything he was.”

Viola Davis - Rose Maxson

“- Jesse Stone: Molly, can I get a cup of coffee?
- Molly Crane: If you make it.”
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone
Viola Davis - Molly Crane

“Never take a learning opportunity away from another student. No matter how smart you need everyone to think you are.”
Viola Davis - Annalise Keating

“Choose your husband carefully. You’ll only have yourself to blame if it ends badly.”
Viola Davis - Annalise Keating

“Racism is built into the DNA of America.”
Viola Davis - Annalise Keating

“Speak of the devil and she shall appear.”
Viola Davis - Annalise Keating

“Better to have no father than a bad one.”
Viola Davis - Annalise Keating

“The blues help you get out of bed in the morning. You get up knowing you ain't alone. There's something else in the world. Something's has been added by that song.”
Viola Davis - Ma Rainey

“White folk don't understand about the blues. They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.”
Viola Davis - Ma Rainey

“The more music you have in the world, the fuller it is.”
Viola Davis - Ma Rainey

“They don't care nothin' about me. All they want is my voice. Well, I done learned that. And they gonna treat me the way I wanna be treated, no matter how much it hurt them.”
Viola Davis - Ma Rainey

“- Jack Mulligan: What I've learned from men like my father and your husband is that you reap what you sow.
- Veronica: Let's hope so.”
Colin Farrell - Jack Mulligan
Viola Davis - Veronica

“- Veronica: Now the best thing we have going for us, is being who we are.
- Alice: Why ?
- Veronica: Because no-one thinks we have the balls to pull this off.”

Viola Davis - Veronica
Elizabeth Debicki - Alice

“- Veronica: I'm not involved in Harry's business. I work for the teacher's union.
- Jamal Manning: I understand. Criminals are like cops. They don't bring their shit home.”
Viola Davis - Veronica
Brian Tyree Henry - Jamal Manning

“We have a lot of work to do, crying is not on the list.”
Viola Davis - Veronica

“- Seals’ Admiral Burns: It’s rumored, Amanda, that some of them have abilities.
- Amanda Waller: Oh, yeah. I have seen things. Maybe Superman was some kind of beacon for them to creep back from the shadows.”
Michael Murray Scratch - Seals’ Admiral Burns
Viola Davis - Amanda Waller

“- Troy Maxson: It's not easy for me to admit that I've been standing in the same place for eighteen years!
- Rose Maxson: Well, I've been standing with you! I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot as you!”
Denzel Washington - Troy Maxson
Viola Davis - Rose Maxson

“I took all my feelings, my wants and needs and dreams, and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and watched and prayed over it. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom! And it didn't take me no 18 years to realize the soil was hard and rocky, and it wasn't never gonna bloom!”

Viola Davis - Rose Maxson

“If they get caught, we throw them under the bus.”
Viola Davis - Amanda Waller

“- Harley Quinn: Are you the Devil?
- Amanda Waller: All you need to know is you work for me.”
Margot Robbie - Harley Quinn
Viola Davis - Amanda Waller

“- Seals' Admiral Burns: What makes you think you can control them?
- Amanda Waller: Because getting people to act against their own self-interest is what I do for a living.”

Michael Murray Scratch - Seals' Admiral Burns
Viola Davis - Amanda Waller

“I want to assemble a task force of the most dangerous people on the planet, who I think can do some good.”
Viola Davis - Amanda Waller

“From right now, this child's got a mother. But you're a womanless man.”

Viola Davis - Rose Maxson

“I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different.”
Viola Davis