43 Quotes by Denzel Washington
- Growing up I didn't watch movies.
- I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.
- Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.
- Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
- Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
- You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
- I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.
- I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
- You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
- If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.
- I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.
- I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.
- I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.
- If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.
- In any profession it gets to be a grind.
- I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
- I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
- I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.
- I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
- 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.
- I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.
- One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.
- Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
- 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.
- When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!
- 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.
- If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.
- The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.
- You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.
- 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!
- My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
- My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
- Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
- Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
- In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.
- The poorest people are the sweetest people.
- Do not fear mistakes, for they are stepping stones on the path to success.
- Without commitment, you'll never start. Without consistency, you'll never finish.
- Without hard work and discipline, success is just a dream.
- Do not confuse movement with progress.
- Do not fear failure but rather fear the lack of progress.
- Do not fear mistakes, for mistakes are little stepping stones on the path to success.
- The only mistake to regret is simply being afraid to make any mistakes at all.
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