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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.
Denzel Washington
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Denzel Washington
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 28
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[Martin] Scorsese probably could have directed Schindler's List and [Steven] Spielberg probably could have directed Goodfellas. But it's as much to do with the difference in culture as it is with race.
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It's important for us to tell our stories.
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A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
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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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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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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 a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.
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Years ago, even prior to 9/11, I did a movie called The Siege. I did a lot of research with the FBI and the CIA. And I was amazed at that time (I guess we might all know it now) how little information they shared with each other. So after that, I'm not surprised by anything.
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[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.
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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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When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.
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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.
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At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back (23).
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You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend somebody 50 million dollars you want you're money back. You don't care if they are oppressed. You just want you're money back.
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Thank God in advance for what's already yours.
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A sociopath will do anything to win. Anything.
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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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Dreams without goals, are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment.
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By the way, sitting with other mommies is probably the most frightening experience in the entire world. They're serious into mommy-shaming.
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