Fences Quotes · Page 2

I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

— Viola Davis

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

— Duncan Hunter

Some people build fences to keep people out; some people build fences to keep people in.

— Russell Hornsby

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

— Richard Engel

“Good fences make good neighbors I fool and his money are parted Make hay while the suneshines ”

— DON'T REMEMBER

“We aren't guaranteed the time we think we need to mend fences with those we love.”

— Eileen Wilks

You deserve someone who jumps fences to be with you..not someone who's ON the fence about being with you.

— Anonymous

“When we shut people out, we wall ourselves in;When we stop building bridges, we start erecting fences.”

— William Arthur Ward

For me, that was a hard scene [in "Fences"] to do twenty-something times, which (laughing), I counted. That was difficult, but once…

— Viola Davis

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“A common farm expression was, “If you don’t have anything else to do, you can fix fence.” Fences are like friendships. They…

— Lawn Griffiths

In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He…

— Denzel Washington

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going…

— Denzel Washington

I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is…

— Sam Shepard

Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“It seems to me the fence separating us from who we are and who we can be is not a straight line,…

— Chloe Thurlow

Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissible to play, because…

— Jeanne Elium

“You cannot ask a person who is created to break down fences to be the same who builds them. The one who…

— Anonymous

These are human issues. These are human stories. I think that's why 'Fences' has been able to resonate and been able to…

— Russell Hornsby

It just happened that we did [Fences] seven years ago on Broadway. Scott Rudin brought me August Wilson's original screenplay for it,…

— Denzel Washington

Obviously, ["Fences"] is a character-driven piece in every sense of the word, and Denzel [Washington] knows the actor. He gave us two…

— Viola Davis

There were a lot of fences and walls existing in my life, literally and figuratively, and that was really not indicative of…

— Ben Gibbard

“People will insist on building high and wide barriers directly in your path, often with the intent of closing you in. If…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

— Anne Sexton

Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.

— Richard Engel

“You'll never end up in a museum if you spend your whole life painting fences.”

— Connor Chalfant

“He was guarded behind a hundred fences of reserve and anger.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

'Fences' is under the headline of the project of my lifetime. It is the most perfect and undeniably developed narrative that I've…

— Viola Davis

“The one who breaks fences believes in freedom, no boundaries and universal browsing. Those who build them believe in setting rules for…

— Sameh Elsayed

I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said,…

— Jim Cummings

I read 'Fences' when I was about 30 and I thought: This is too sad.' But you get older and you start…

— Lenny Henry

“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Just as “good fences make good neighbors,” clear delineations of responsibility can prevent the kind of turf battles that break down staff…

— Duffy Robbins

When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody…

— Ted Lyons

“The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk…

— Haruki Murakami

“He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences…

— Robert Frost

I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.

— Omari Hardwick

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up…

— Chuck Eddy

“Troy: "Then when I saw that gal [Alberta]...she firmed up my backbone. And I got to thinking that if I tried...I just…

— August Wilson

Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and…

— Duncan Hunter