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I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.

Denzel Washington

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Denzel Washington
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 28
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Denzel Hayes Washington Jr.
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It just happened that we did [Fences] seven years ago on Broadway. Scott Rudin brought me August Wilson's original screenplay for it, and I realized I hadn't read the play. So I read it. Then I realized that Troy (my character) was 53 - and I was 55 at the time. I realized I better hurry up! I might be too old!
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People have said to me for a long time, Man you're funny. I say, Well, I'm quick, but being funny on purpose, take after take - that's why I said for me it was new territory, and so by improvising something might come out that might be good. And it's film, so they can cut it if it isn't.
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You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.
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You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
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I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
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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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I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.
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In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.
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If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.
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Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: My god is right, yours is wrong. Religion to me is the human condition. If you're a Muslim, you can't be a Christian. That to me is religion.
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One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.
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Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.
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As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, Oh, I'm a bad guy. How do you play that?
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We live in a time when people give up too easy.
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So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else (20).
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Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.
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I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.
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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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When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like this girl or that guy, when the director really loves them. No, you want to go with what the director likes.
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I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.
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