Denzel Washington Quotes - Page 9

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• When you look in one direction where Troy's chair was, you could see out through the yard across the street, there was an old cork bar advertisement for five cents. We wanted it to feel like this was real life [in Fences] and that it extended blocks and blocks.

  Denzel Washington

  Real, Block, One Direction

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

  Denzel Washington

  Two, Lasts, Actresses

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• Growing up I didn't watch movies.

  Denzel Washington

  Movie, Growing Up, Watches

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• You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

  Denzel Washington

  Acting, Weird Things, Knows

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

  Denzel Washington

  Soldier, Stories, Green

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• I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

  Denzel Washington

  Scripts, Pick Me, Fortunate

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• 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.

  Denzel Washington

  Children, Actors, Wonderful

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• When 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.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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

  Denzel Washington

  Years, Exception To The Rule, Unemployed

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• What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.

  Denzel Washington

  Paris, Actors

  "Denzel Washington: 'I don't want movie-star friends'". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

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• I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

  Denzel Washington

  Years, Tennessee, Ran

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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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• Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.

  Denzel Washington

  Thinking, Sentimental, Dies

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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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• [Russel Crowe] has been through a lot and had a lot of success. No one knew who he was when I worked with him 12 years ago. He's just come off a great film in Australia- Romper Stomper - and so it was good to see him again. Obviously, I'd seen him since.

  Denzel Washington

  Years, Australia, Film

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

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• Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

  Denzel Washington

  Real, Opposites, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've worked with children all my life.

  Denzel Washington

  Children

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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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• [Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.

  Denzel Washington

  Play, Fence, Screens

  Source: www.theawesomemuse.com

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• There's racism everywhere.

  Denzel Washington

  Race, Racism

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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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• [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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• I'll be working with Ridley's [Scott] brother, Tony, again, someone who needless to say we've had a great amount of success together. I trust him - so I won't have to think about it or I'll try not to.

  Denzel Washington

  Brother, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

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• After directing the first film it feels kind of tricky being back to being in front of the camera, because I've always got one eye over there, kind of thinking of what they are doing, and how the shot is being composed. I think it takes a couple of films to just get back to just being an actor.

  Denzel Washington

  Couple, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

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• In fact, someone was telling me that Gladiator was the one film where Ridley Scott didn't take a producer's credit. And it won. But this guy changed the industry twice; with Aliens which was a whole new way of looking at things and Blade Runner that was also a whole new way of looking at things.

  Denzel Washington

  Guy, Blade Runner, Facts

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

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