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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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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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Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.
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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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It's not easy for me to admit that I've been standing in the same place for 18 years.
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You never know how you're going to affect people.
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I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.
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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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I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.
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The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.
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One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.
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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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Taking the money from drug operations and all that sort of stuff is something that goes past what most of us in society would expect a policeman should do. That temptation hits the police force at the same time as the temptation to take those drugs that are readily available hits the people on the streets.
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Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.
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A sociopath will do anything to win. Anything.
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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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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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Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.
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I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.
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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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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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