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I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.

Denzel Washington

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Denzel Washington
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 28
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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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Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.
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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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Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.
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When you look in one direction where Troy's chair was, you could see out through the yard across the street, there was an old cork bar advertisement for five cents. We wanted it to feel like this was real life [in Fences] and that it extended blocks and blocks.
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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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Thank God in advance for what's already yours.
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Growing up I didn't watch movies.
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That's what I tell young actors. You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role.
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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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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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What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.
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There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.
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When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.
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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 love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.
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Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.
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So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is God’s proof to you sent already to indicate that it’s yours. You already have it. Claim it.
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I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven't done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.
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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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