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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).

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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It's strictly business. If I loan you $25 million, I want my money back. I don't want to hear about the social impact. That's great for you, but now I'm $25 million in the hole, so next time you come to ask me.
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Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.
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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.
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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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My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
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I'll be working with Ridley's [Scott] brother, Tony, again, someone who needless to say we've had a great amount of success together. I trust him - so I won't have to think about it or I'll try not to.
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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.
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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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Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
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I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.
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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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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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My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
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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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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've always felt protected. That's the God's honest truth.
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My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
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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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Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.
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Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.
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