Denzel Washington Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Family, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

• I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.

  Denzel Washington

  Character, Play, Trying

• Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

  Denzel Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe In Yourself

  "Shaq asked Denzel Washington to say lines from 'Training Day' speech" by Alysha Tsuji, www.usatoday.com. April 17, 2018.

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

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

• One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

  Denzel Washington

  Acting, Film, Good Things

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2000.

• Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.

  Denzel Washington

  Morning, Children, Acting

  Source: movieweb.com

• 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.

  Denzel Washington

  Practice, Play, Acting

  Source: www.npr.org

• We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.

  Denzel Washington

  Acting, Retiring, Great Things

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

• 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.

  Denzel Washington

  Acting, Weird Things, Knows

• I'm not a big Hollywood star. I'm an actor. I'm called a star. That's not what I am. First of all I'm a human being; my profession is acting. People give you titles. They say you're an up and coming star, then they say you're a star, then they say you're a washed-up star. So I don't get caught up in what I'm called. My job, my profession, is acting.

  Denzel Washington

  Jobs, Stars, People

  Source: the-talks.com

• What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."

  Denzel Washington

  Book, Acting, Shooting

  Source: shadowandact.com

• That's where you can find things and modulate your performance and give the other actors something fresh to respond to. We've probably all worked with actors who when it's suddenly your close up, they get sleepy. I don't like that. It's selfish acting, and I won't tolerate it.

  Denzel Washington

  Selfish, Giving, Acting

  Source: shadowandact.com

• It was never my dream to be famous. I didn't start acting to be a movie star. I started in the theater and my desire was to get better at my craft. It's still my desire. I don't consider myself a movie star, nor do I really have the desire to be one. I'm just an entertainer. An actor who works hard at his craft. Whatever labels people give me, that's not really me or part of my process.

  Denzel Washington

  Dream, Stars, Hard Work

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Come on, I know bad acting when I hear it.

  Denzel Washington

  Acting, Knows, Bad Acting

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.

  Denzel Washington

  Acting, Film, Reason

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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