Viola Davis Emmy Awards Speech

"My husband was like, 'I didn't know where you were going with that thing.' I think the most surprising thing is the impact it's made on people's lives. That it wasn't just, 'Oh, you made a really good speech.' It really is, it meant a lot in people's lives and kind of transforming them and shifting them just a little bit"

Accepting her prize at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, the 50-year-old actress evoked the spirit of African-American freedom fighter Harriet Tubman. "In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there n...

"My husband was like, 'I didn't know where you were going with that thing.' I think the most surprising thing is the impact it's made on people's lives. That it wasn't just, 'Oh, you made a really good speech.' It really is, it meant a lot in people's lives and kind of transforming them and shifting them just a little bit"

Accepting her prize at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, the 50-year-old actress evoked the spirit of African-American freedom fighter Harriet Tubman. "In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there n...