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27 quotations by Denzel Washington

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

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

QuoteWhen 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.Quote

QuoteWhen 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.Quote

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

QuoteThe 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.Quote

QuoteThe poorest people are the sweetest people.Quote

QuoteOne good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.Quote

QuoteLuck is where opportunity meets preparation.Quote

QuoteIn Los Angeles, everyone is a star.Quote

QuoteIn any profession it gets to be a grind.Quote

QuoteIf you don't trust the pilot, don't go.Quote

QuoteIf 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.Quote

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

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

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

QuoteI 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.Quote

QuoteI think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.Quote

QuoteI 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.Quote

QuoteI 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.Quote

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

QuoteGrowing up I didn't watch movies.Quote

QuoteFamily is life; acting is making a living.Quote

QuoteEverybody 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.Quote

QuoteDakota 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.Quote

QuoteBlack 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.Quote

QuoteActing is just a way of making a living, the family is life.Quote