Denzel Washington Quotes - Page 8

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• If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.

  Denzel Washington

  Pages, Stage, Ifs

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like this girl or that guy," when the director really loves them. No, you want to go with what the director likes.

  Denzel Washington

  Girl, Choices, Guy

  "Denzel Washington Talks Fleshing Out His Character, Reuniting with Antoine Fuqua, Filming in Boston, and More on the Set of THE EQUALIZER". Interview, collider.com. June 17, 2014.

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• In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

  Denzel Washington

  Voting, Complaining, Standards

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• I get nervous when a picture goes beyond two hours.

  Denzel Washington

  Two, Nervous, Hours

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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.

  Denzel Washington

  Cutting, Men, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• When people say "What do you want people to get from this movie?" I say, "Well, it depends on what they bring to it." I don't try to decide what people should get from it or why. I don't do a part for those kinds of reasons.

  Denzel Washington

  People, Trying, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• [Movie "Fences"] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.

  Denzel Washington

  Today, Fence, Screening

  Source: www.theawesomemuse.com

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• It just happened that we did [Fences] seven years ago on Broadway. Scott Rudin brought me August Wilson's original screenplay for it, and I realized I hadn't read the play. So I read it. Then I realized that Troy (my character) was 53 - and I was 55 at the time. I realized I better hurry up! I might be too old!

  Denzel Washington

  Character, August, Years

  Source: www.theawesomemuse.com

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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.

  Denzel Washington

  Nice, Home, People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I read a ton of scripts. I read a lot of scripts, and you read one, and first of all, you felt like you read it in 14 minutes, because you're turning the pages so fast you can't wait to see what's going to happen.

  Denzel Washington

  Waiting, Pages, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• [Rose from "Fences"] couldn't just jump out there. Not just because of economic reasons but because how she was looked at in society at the time. There were a lot of factors that made you stay I guess.

  Denzel Washington

  Rose, Reason, Economic

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• [Saniyya Sidney] was very serious about her work and her craft, and she wanted to be good, and she wanted to work on it. So I said, "Ok." It was as simple as that. She was just right. She just has it.

  Denzel Washington

  Simple, Crafts, Serious

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• 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.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

  Denzel Washington

  Writing, Effort, Film

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Fundamentally, the most important thing is to get the film made for me and to get as many people to see it as possible. And if I help that, then - I know I help that, let's put it that way. I do know that I help that. It is called show business.

  Denzel Washington

  People, Important, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

  Denzel Washington

  Fighting, People, Black

  Source: www.bellanaija.com

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• By the way, sitting with other mommies is probably the most frightening experience in the entire world. They're serious into mommy-shaming.

  Denzel Washington

  Sitting, World, Way

  Source: www.bellanaija.com

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• I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award.

  Denzel Washington

  Awards, Realising, Academy Awards

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

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• I am not going to bury my son! My son is going to bury me!

  Denzel Washington

  Son, My Son

  "Fictional Character: John Q. Archibald". "John Q", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

  Denzel Washington

  Directors, Actors, Fine

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There's racism everywhere.

  Denzel Washington

  Race, Racism

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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.

  Denzel Washington

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You start to find a rhythm and usually if it makes me laugh or comment in the editing room then I knew that's what's going to happen in the audience. That first reaction is usually the right reaction.

  Denzel Washington

  Editing, Laughing, Rooms

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• Denzel Washington: I like the collaboration, I like seeing people do well, so I really plan to direct the rest of my days.

  Denzel Washington

  People, Collaboration, Denzel

  Source: movieweb.com

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