Denzel Washington Quotes - Page 5

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• Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are and to the dust we shall return.

  Denzel Washington

  Taken, Dust, Thorns

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• Every day, sincerely and without phoniness, Lou demonstrated by his actions how very vital it is - more than anything else - to understand and appreciate the people who work with you...Do your job well, but always remember that the people you work with are your most valuable asset. Embrace them. Honor them. Respect them" (206) - "Prescriptions for Success" by John Schuerholz

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  Jobs, People, Appreciate

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

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  Life, Family, Acting

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

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• I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

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  Directors, Actors, Not Interested

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• I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

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  Life, Success, Faith

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• Sometimes when you're the good guy, you're sort of trapped. "Oh, he can't say that." And even when you're playing a real person like a Steven Biko, you're sort of stuck within those confines. So yeah, bad guys do have more fun.

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  Fun, Real, Guy

  "Safe House: A Conversation With Denzel Washington". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. February 04, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Dream, Stars, Hard Work

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

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• When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.

  Denzel Washington

  Success, Mistake, Boys

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• You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.

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  U Haul, Commencement Speech, Behinds

  "Denzel Washington to College Grads: 'Put God First'" by Michael W. Chapman, www.cnsnews.com. May 11, 2015.

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• I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts that I find interesting. It'd bother me more to be just pigeonholed into doing what people think is ethical or that's boring to me. I don't pick parts with that in mind, I just find interesting stories. If it's interesting to me, then I do it.

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  Selfish, Artist, Thinking

  "Denzel Washington Remembers 'Malcom X' And 'The Wizard Of Oz'". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. March 1, 2013.

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• I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney Vance did Fences. I've long considered August Wilson to be one of the five greatest playwrights in American history.

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  August, Long, Firsts

  Source: www.theawesomemuse.com

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• As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?

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  Play, Guy, Actors

  Source: the-talks.com

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Stars, People

  Source: the-talks.com

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• There are films that I don't like, and then someone will come up to me and say it's their favorite movie. The movies belong to the people. You make them and you put them out. For me, I love the process of making films. For me, my favorite film is always my next one.

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  People, Next, Film

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 10, 2014.

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• A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.

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  Opportunity, Men, Play

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• I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.

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  Life, Success, Faith

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• We all are doing the best we can. I would like to say that I'm a walking poster board for feminism and women's liberation, but there are things that I do in my life that deeply, deeply fall short of being a statement for being a strong woman. I am flawed as much as anyone else.

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  Strong Women, Fall, Feminism

  Source: www.bellanaija.com

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• In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.

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  War, Humble, Enemy

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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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  Please Me, Play, Consistency

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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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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  Religious, Jobs, War

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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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  Kids, Play, Serious

  Source: shadowandact.com

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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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  Christian, Men, Spirituality

  Source: the-talks.com

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• I don't feel pressure, because I do what I want to do. I don't feel pressure at all. I've never done any movies because I thought this was what somebody wanted me to do. I'm a bit more, for lack of a better word, selfish than that. But like I say in the movie, you do what you have to do so that you can do what you want to do.

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  Selfish, Done, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

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  Movie, Watches, Film

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• 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.

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  Acting, Film, Reason

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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