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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.

Denzel Washington

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Denzel Washington
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 28
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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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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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We know what hair smells like when a hot comb hits it. That's a cultural thing. We know what that smells like on Sunday mornings, usually church-related or something. In my house, it was getting ready for church and your sister was getting her hair fried.
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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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There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison (209) - Effort is Everything by Bud Selig
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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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I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that.
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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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Money doesn't buy happiness. Some people say it's a heck of a down payment, though.
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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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Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.
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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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You start to find a rhythm and usually if it makes me laugh or comment in the editing room then I knew that's what's going to happen in the audience. That first reaction is usually the right reaction.
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I think we're fascinated by gangsters and that whole lifestyle and crossing the line. We get sort of stuck in our normal lives, if you will, and you want to be bigger than life and I think people somehow live through these sorts of characters.
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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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A sociopath will do anything to win. Anything.
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In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.
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I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.
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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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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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