Denzel Washington Quotes

I want to be responsible. If I give you $50 million, it's because I want my money to come back. Not because I like your haircut.

It's about one of the biggest and most notorious drug dealers in the history of America, Frank Lucas and a New York detective, Richie Roberts, who tracks him down.

A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, ''Oh, I don't like it'.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

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.

It's not only a pleasure, but an honor for me to be here tonight.

[Roberts, who starred opposite Washington in] The Pelican Brief, ... the best actor of this generation, hands down.

When they said my name, I said, 'There is no way I can go up here without sharing it with Rubin,' ... Everything that has happened with this film and this moment is about the love that has come from him.

I actually sat out in the audience a few times with my mother.

Devil in a Blue Dress.

We're not sure yet who will play my father.

I really want my father's life to be portrayed honestly. I don't want people getting drawn into the theatre because they want to see the last scene where he's shot and killed.

It's hard because a lot of people expect me to be a certain way,'' says J.D., whose face is a bit fuller, yet sounds strikingly like his father. .

I've heard (the rumors). Having babies, I've left home and all this... I'm a big boy. I can take it. But what bothers me about all of that stuff is the effect on the family.

Part of the reason I liked the idea of doing the film was that it was very wordy. I was getting good practice playing Brutus. So 'Inside Man' felt a bit like Shakespeare goes to the streets or something.

Spike really started me on this path many moons ago. Now, it really helps me do my job. [Improvising] helps me work.

If there is a political message I don't know what it is. Don't rob a bank?

I'm on a plane tonight. No partying tonight. I gotta hit it, I gotta do what I gotta do so I can do what I want to do. I gotta work. They call it show business.

The hat kept the sun off of me but, to be honest, it's a handle. I worked the hat. We had one hat and one tie, by the way. I don't know if anyone knows this, but by the last scene in the movie at the restaurant, the hat is falling apart.

Don't get comfortable in here, sport.

We just go. It's a shorthand. It's familiar.