Denzel Washington Quotes

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

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

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.

Dakota 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.

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.

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

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

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.

I 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.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

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.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

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

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.

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

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

I've worked with children all my life.

If 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.

If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.