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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.

Denzel Washington

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Denzel Washington
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 28
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We rehearsed for two weeks [in Fences], and we taped out the whole house in the front, and the rooms, and we stood it up like a play. We tried to get off book and gave people small props.
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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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When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.
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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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We live in a time when people give up too easy.
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I just do what I feel and what I like. I don't necessarily censor or feel an obligation to have a particular moral standard - I'm willing to wallow in the mud, if necessary. It appears as if there seems to be a consistency in result, but maybe that has as much to do with the roles I choose as it does with how I play them. I do what pleases me.
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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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We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.
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The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.
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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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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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I am not going to bury my son! My son is going to bury me!
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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 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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Thank God in advance for what's already yours.
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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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Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.
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Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.
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I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
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