Denzel Washington Quotes - Page 6

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

  Denzel Washington

  Pieces, Reinterpretation, Materials

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• There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

  Denzel Washington

  Effort, Bud, Comparison

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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.

  Denzel Washington

  Past, People, Drug

  Source: movieweb.com

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• 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

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• I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

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  Success, Senior, Jobs

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• I honestly believe, and I've said it many times, that the universal stems from the specific and I can't walk around with a performance and ask everyone how they feel about it, but if noble is an opinion that people have I'll accept that. I've been asked many times why I don't play bad guys, or heavies, and I would do it, absolutely, in a second, just haven't been offered any so... if anybody has a script out there tonight I'm more than willing.

  Denzel Washington

  Believe, Play, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• 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.

  Denzel Washington

  Thinking

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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.

  Denzel Washington

  Men, Thinking, Long Ago

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• I'm not afraid to upset people. But I am not as upset because I understand what I'm up against.

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  People, Upset, Not Afraid

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• You'll see some great performances [in Fences]. And I'm not just saying that because I directed it either! You'll see!

  Denzel Washington

  Just Saying, Fence, Performances

  Source: www.theawesomemuse.com

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• 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.

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  Passion, People, Office

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• I asked my mother I said, "You divorced my dad, how did you decide? She said, "I decided twelve years before he knew it." I was like wow; I'm learning something new every day.

  Denzel Washington

  Mother, Dad, Learning Something New

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her ¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me.

  Denzel Washington

  Thinking, Years, Car

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• It could be that it's not that different. Circumstances, no matter what the color is, could be similar.

  Denzel Washington

  Color, Different, Matter

  Source: www.bellanaija.com

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• We had a guy, a gentlemen by the name of Mr. Greenleaf who lived behind the house we were shooting [Fences], and he was like a part of the movie.He would come downstairs, and he couldn't hear well to say, "Ya'll want some coffee?"

  Denzel Washington

  Coffee, Names, Guy

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

  Denzel Washington

  Thinking, Cameras, Needs

  "Denzel Washington and Norman Jewison". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2000.

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• Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.

  Denzel Washington

  Generations, Actors, Moments

  Source: www.theawesomemuse.com

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• I remember my mother and father arguing about light bulbs because my father thought he could save money by putting 25-watt bulbs instead of 60-watt bulbs and my mother was trying to explain to him that her children needed to learn to read so that they could go to college. He couldn't see that.

  Denzel Washington

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

  Denzel Washington

  Labels, Fundamentals

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• My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

  Denzel Washington

  Fun, Years, Guy

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• 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.

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  Movie, Kings, Father

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• [Martin] Scorsese probably could have directed Schindler's List and [Steven] Spielberg probably could have directed Goodfellas. But it's as much to do with the difference in culture as it is with race.

  Denzel Washington

  Race, Differences, Culture

  Source: www.bellanaija.com

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• I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

  Denzel Washington

  Book, Office, Unemployment

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• I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that.

  Denzel Washington

  Knees, Spirit, Written

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• We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

  Denzel Washington

  August, Way, Fence

  Source: www.theawesomemuse.com

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