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I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

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Denzel Washington
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 28
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Got to be who you are in this world, no matter what.
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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.
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I pray that you all put your shoes way under the bed at night so that you gotta get on your knees in the morning to find them. And while you're down there thank God for grace and mercy and understanding. We all fall short of the glory, we all got plenty.
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I asked my mother I said, You divorced my dad, how did you decide? She said, I decided twelve years before he knew it. I was like wow I'm learning something new every day.
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Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are and to the dust we shall return.
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A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
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As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.
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[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.
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