Top 100 Quotes About Denzel Washington

#1. You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

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#2. A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.

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#3. My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

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#4. People have said to me for a long time, "Man you're funny." I say, "Well, I'm quick," but being funny on purpose, take after take - that's why I said for me it was new territory, and so by improvising something might come out that might be good. And it's film, so they can cut it if it isn't.

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#5. I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.

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#6. I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.

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#7. What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

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#8. A lot of people ... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like ... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington ... people who are different, who are larger than life.

Walter Mosley

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#9. I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

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#10. If you don't fail, you're not even trying.

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#11. My mother used to tell me: "You gotta smile more. Because if you don't smile, the way you look at people, they'll think you're mad at them."

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#12. When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.

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#13. Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

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#14. In any profession it gets to be a grind.

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#15. I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

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#16. I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

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#17. In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

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#18. I get nervous when a picture goes beyond two hours.

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#19. If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her

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#20. Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

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#21. When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

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#22. Growing up I didn't watch movies.

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#23. The lessons I learned in Sunday School have kept me on track

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#24. Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

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#25. I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.

Derek Luke

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#26. It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

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#27. Put God first in everything you do.

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#28. Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.

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#29. I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.

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#30. You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse,

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#31. You have to do what you gotta do in this life in order to do what you wanna do ...

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#32. Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

Seth MacFarlane

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#33. Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.

Dayo Okeniyi

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#34. The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.

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#35. Denzel Washington: I like the collaboration, I like seeing people do well, so I really plan to direct the rest of my days.

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#36. Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

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#37. Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

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#38. I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.

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#39. I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

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#40. Revenge is a meal best served cold.

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#41. I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

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#42. I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.

Barkhad Abdi

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#43. The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.

Michael Irvin

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#44. So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else (20).

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#45. You can't break me because you didn't make me.

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#46. I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.

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#47. Money doesn't buy happiness. Some people say it's a heck of a down payment, though.

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#48. Sometimes when you're the good guy, you're sort of trapped. "Oh, he can't say that." And even when you're playing a real person like a Steven Biko, you're sort of stuck within those confines. So yeah, bad guys do have more fun.

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#49. What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you" (102). - Tony Gonzalez, "The Giant Within

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#50. I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.

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#51. Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.

Chadwick Boseman

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#52. Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

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#53. A wise woman knows the importance of speaking life into her man. If you love him; believe in him, encourage him and be his peace.

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#54. I read the Bible every day.

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#55. I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and the people behind the camera.

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#56. Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss, or dream? Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt by the heart.

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#57. Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

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#58. Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.

Pearl Cleage

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#59. When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.

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#60. What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.

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#61. When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like this girl or that guy, when the director really loves them. No, you want to go with what the director likes.

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#62. The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.

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#63. Fundamentally, the most important thing is to get the film made for me and to get as many people to see it as possible. And if I help that, then - I know I help that, let's put it that way. I do know that I help that. It is called show business.

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#64. Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

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#65. When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

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#66. I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

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#67. Dreams without goals, are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment.

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#68. There are films that I don't like, and then someone will come up to me and say it's their favorite movie. The movies belong to the people. You make them and you put them out. For me, I love the process of making films. For me, my favorite film is always my next one.

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#69. I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

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#70. I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go.

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#71. At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back (23).

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#72. Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn't been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota.

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#73. It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.

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#74. There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.

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#75. Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.

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#76. It was fantastic to be on the set again with Denzel (Washington) and Antoine (Fuqua) and then to have the situation be so different. We weren't making a sequel to Training Day. We were in the middle of the desert riding around on some horses.

Ethan Hawke

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#77. I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.

Wentworth Miller

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#78. Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch ...

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#79. So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is God's proof to you sent already to indicate that it's yours. You already have it. Claim it.

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#80. I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

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#81. You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

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#82. My father was a minister for 50 years (with) Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. We prayed about everything, every day, then he always said, "Amen. God is love." I thought God is love was one word. Like "Godislove." And it took me a long time to learn what that really meant.

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#83. I don't look back, no. Maybe when I'm older; people say, 'What's your favorite film?' I say, 'My next one.' I'm not interested in sitting around; I just don't, never have.

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#84. The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

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#85. I believe in God. I don't fear man, I fear God.

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#86. I like talking. I like acting.

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#87. Put God first in everything you do ... Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift ... I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me.

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#88. The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children" (217) - John Singleton "Oh Man, I've Become My Father

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#89. I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

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#90. I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

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#91. As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

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#92. I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven't done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.

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#93. I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career.

Shemar Moore

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#94. I think we're fascinated by gangsters and that whole lifestyle and crossing the line. We get sort of stuck in our normal lives, if you will, and you want to be bigger than life and I think people somehow live through these sorts of characters.

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#95. Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

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#96. Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

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#97. Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

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#98. Do what you got to do now, so you can do what you want to do later

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#99. One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

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#100. I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

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