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Viola Davis Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“Are you good for anything or can you only do your job when you're screwing evidence out of someone?”
— Annalise Keating, How to Get Away with Murder, Season 1: He Has a Wife
Tagged: angry, Sex, evidence, Job, Good for Nothing
“Whatever you say to the police can and will be misconstrued to support the prosecution. So when in doubt, shut your mouth.”
— Annalise Keating, How to Get Away with Murder, Season 1: She’s a Murderer
Tagged: Police, Misconstrued, Doubt, Shut Your Mouth, evidence
“Because I'm trying to protect you like always. When are you gonna finally accept that?”
— Annalise Keating, How to Get Away with Murder, Season 2: Meet Bonnie
Tagged: Protection, accepting, Safety
“ Choose your husband carefully, Ms. Pratt. You'll only have yourself to blame if it ends badly.”
— Annalise Keating, How to Get Away with Murder, Season 1: Smile, or Go to Jail
Tagged: husband, Blame, Careful
“Sex. I know what you're thinking. 'I paid $80,000 a year for this? What does sex have to do with criminal law?'. Everything.”
— Annalise Keating, How to Get Away with Murder, Season 2: It’s Called the Octopus
Tagged: Sex, Criminal Law, Legal, Money
“Me not paying attention to you is the best compliment you could ever get. 'Cause that means I don't have to worry about you. Go back to the office and stop being needy.”
— Annalise Keating, How to Get Away with Murder, Season 2: I Want You to Die
Tagged: Ignoring, needy, Worrying, Bossy, Office
“He looked like a monster. So they treated him like a monster. Then he became a monster.”
— Amanda Waller, Suicide Squad
Tagged: monsters, bullies
“Never take a learning opportunity away from another student. No matter how smart you need everyone to think you are.”
— Annalise Keating, How to Get Away with Murder, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Opportunity, Smart, student, Selfish, Learning
“Let me help you. Let me help you. Because if you do, I promise you will get away with this.”
— Annalise Keating, How to Get Away with Murder, Season 1: Hello, Raskolnikov
Tagged: help, Get Away, Win, Lies
“Asher: Has someone had a few too many?

Annalise: A whole bottle of vodka, and if you all had balls, you'd be drunk too.”
— Annalise Keating, How to Get Away with Murder, Season 2: There’s My Baby
Tagged: Drunk, vodka, Drinking
“I wanna build a team of some very bad people, who I think can do some good.”
— Amanda Waller, Suicide Squad
Tagged: Bad People, good deeds
“Do you want to keep your business or do you want to go to jail for being a negligent slut?”
— Annalise Keating, How to Get Away with Murder, Season 2: It’s Called the Octopus
Tagged: Jail, Business, Negligent, angry
“Make me out to be the villain if it helps you sleep at night, but don't you ever screw with my cases.”
— Annalise Keating, How to Get Away with Murder, Season 2: Skanks Get Shanked
Tagged: villain, Cases, Bad Guy, Work
“The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity.”
— Viola Davis, Emmy Awards Speech 2015
Tagged: Change, Opportunity
“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
— Aibileen Clark, The Help
Tagged: feminist movies
“They don't care nothing about me.”
— Ma Rainey, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Tagged: Care, Value
“I think about it a lot, killing myself. I have ever since I was a child. A lot of times I think the world would be a much better place without me in it. But I don't do it. You're a better woman than me and if I don't deserve to die, then you definitely don't.”
— Annalise Keating, How to Get Away with Murder, Season 2: Skanks Get Shanked
Tagged: Death, Hatred, Better Woman, Die, Suicide
“You're messing with the wrong bitch”
— Annalise Keating, How to Get Away with Murder, Season 2: What Happened to You, Annalise?
Tagged: Threat, angry, Wrong Person, Strong
“Everyone has a weakness. And a weakness can be leveraged.”
— Amanda Waller, Suicide Squad
Tagged: Weakness, leverage
“Memories demand attention, because memories have teeth.”
— Viola Davis, Viola Revealed a Devastating Truth About Childhood Sexual Assault That Everyone Should Hear
Tagged: Memory, Sexual Assault, Trauma, Rape
“Think carefully, everything after this moment will not only determine your career but life. You can spend it in a corporate office drafting contracts and hitting on chubby paralegals before finally putting a gun in your mouth or you can join my firm and become someone you actually like. So decide: do you want the job or not?”
— Annalise Keating, How to Get Away with Murder, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Law, Career, Job, Firm, Choices
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