Viola Davis Quotes

I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.

There is a saying that every single person in the world has something to teach you. So the more people I get to work with, the more I can learn, and the better actor I will become.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

When you get a bit older, you gain more experience, and you try to put it to good use, to help yourself in different ways and also the young players.

People don't understand that, when I was at WCW, if I wasn't wrestling that night, I was down at the Power Plant teaching. I was teaching people how to do stuff, but every time you teach someone, you learn more. The more you learn, the more you teach. The more you teach, the better you get.

No matter whether someone has been in the business longer than you or for less time, you can learn something from any of them.

Yonder showed me the ropes about life, showed me the ropes about baseball life; he showed me a lot that I couldn't have learned by myself.

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

In life, we all learn from everyone.

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.

I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.

When you're older you want to learn from other people.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.