Denzel Washington Quotes (56 Quotes)



    I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.


    Spike really started me on this path many moons ago. Now, it really helps me do my job. Improvising helps me work.

    You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.


    I'm on a plane tonight. No partying tonight. I gotta hit it, I gotta do what I gotta do so I can do what I want to do. I gotta work. They call it show business.

    Roberts, who starred opposite Washington in The Pelican Brief, ... the best actor of this generation, hands down.

    When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.


    I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

    Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

    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.

    I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

    I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.


    Part of the reason I liked the idea of doing the film was that it was very wordy. I was getting good practice playing Brutus. So 'Inside Man' felt a bit like Shakespeare goes to the streets or something.

    The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.


    I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.

    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.

    Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.


    If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

    My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.


    I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.


    It's about one of the biggest and most notorious drug dealers in the history of America, Frank Lucas and a New York detective, Richie Roberts, who tracks him down.

    Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

    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.

    It's not only a pleasure, but an honor for me to be here tonight.

    I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

    If there is a political message I don't know what it is. Don't rob a bank.

    When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!




    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.

    I really want my father's life to be portrayed honestly. I don't want people getting drawn into the theatre because they want to see the last scene where he's shot and killed.

    You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

    I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

    Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.


    I want to be responsible. If I give you 50 million, it's because I want my money to come back. Not because I like your haircut.


    When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.


    If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

    You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

    The hat kept the sun off of me but, to be honest, it's a handle. I worked the hat. We had one hat and one tie, by the way. I don't know if anyone knows this, but by the last scene in the movie at the restaurant, the hat is falling apart.


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