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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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Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.
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When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like this girl or that guy, when the director really loves them. No, you want to go with what the director likes.
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Revenge is a meal best served cold.
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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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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 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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Fundamentally, the most important thing is to get the film made for me and to get as many people to see it as possible. And if I help that, then - I know I help that, let's put it that way. I do know that I help that. It is called show business.
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Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.
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Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
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Thank God in advance for what's already yours.
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Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.
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I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that.
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I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.
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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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Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: My god is right, yours is wrong. Religion to me is the human condition. If you're a Muslim, you can't be a Christian. That to me is religion.
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Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.
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Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
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I've always felt protected. That's the God's honest truth.
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[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.
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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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