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I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.
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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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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When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.
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Money doesn't buy happiness. Some people say it's a heck of a down payment, though.
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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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A sociopath will do anything to win. Anything.
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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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Revenge is a meal best served cold.
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Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.
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[Movie Fences] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.
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