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Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

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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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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My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
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The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.
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In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.
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I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.
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You can’t break me because you didn’t make me.
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I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.
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My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
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You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.
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I walk by faith, not by sight.
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Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn't been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota.
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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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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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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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[Russel Crowe] has been through a lot and had a lot of success. No one knew who he was when I worked with him 12 years ago. He's just come off a great film in Australia- Romper Stomper - and so it was good to see him again. Obviously, I'd seen him since.
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If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.
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When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!
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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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Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
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