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When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!
Denzel Washington
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Denzel Washington
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 28
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Denzel Hayes Washington Jr.
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We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her ¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me.
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That's what I tell young actors. You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role.
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Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.
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Taking the money from drug operations and all that sort of stuff is something that goes past what most of us in society would expect a policeman should do. That temptation hits the police force at the same time as the temptation to take those drugs that are readily available hits the people on the streets.
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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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I'm not afraid to upset people. But I am not as upset because I understand what I'm up against.
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Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.
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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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I'm a positive person, so I don't get bogged down with it. If you're expecting that, if you wall in that, if you practice that, then you'll attract what you fear.
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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.
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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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I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.
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It's not easy for me to admit that I've been standing in the same place for 18 years.
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If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.
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