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It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

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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We've all received our share of good fortune, so that's my definition of much. A single blessing is all the bounty in the world, and if you've been blessed at all you're meant to pass some of that on. You're meant to set a positive example. That's our responsibility
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My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
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[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.
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Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.
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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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What we did [shooting Fences] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in.
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Say what you really want to say.
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I'm not interested in being a celebrity I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.
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I didn't want to audition the kids so much I just wanted to talk to them because I like seeing how they are because their mothers usually mess them up with practice. So, I'd rather talk to them and see how they respond. I just throw things at them and see how they can hit the ball back, and Saniyya Sidney was good.
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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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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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I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
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