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Growing up I didn't watch movies.
Denzel Washington
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Denzel Washington
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 28
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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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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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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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[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.
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Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.
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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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I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.
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I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.
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The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.
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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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Thank God in advance for what's already yours.
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[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.
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You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.
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In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.
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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 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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Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.
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We live in a time when people give up too easy.
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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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I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
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