Denzel Washington Quotes

It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.

Denzel Washington

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 28, 1954

Topics

WorkHomeSimplePeopleYouPlay

When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.

John Deacon

StartYouNobodyWithoutOutEasier

The only dangerous scene is when James Cromwell put a stake in my chest. But other than that, it turned out to be quite a punch. I didn't think much of it.

Andre Braugher

ThinkDangerousOutPunchOnlyThan

If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not why people come to church. They want to hear the word of God being proclaimed, not the word of Robert Jeffress.

Robert Jeffress

GodPoliticsPeopleChurchWantWhy

Working with my brother is something that I've always wanted to do. He's one of my best friends.

Matt Czuchry

BestBrotherFriendsAlwaysWorking

As a mother I think you often get so caught up in trying to take care of everyone else that you forget to take care of yourself. But I'm a much better wife and mother when I take the time to take care of myself.

Mia Hamm

MotherTimeMyselfWifeYourself

When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.

Stephanie Beacham

MyselfSunshineStupidEndBetter

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

Robert Ballard

SeaLegalBetterCountryWantMars

It was by accident I got into wrestling. Somebody didn't show up, and I just filled in.

Roddy Piper

WrestlingUpGotShowJustAccident

Instead of candidates hiring people, like yours truly, to create campaign media that works on both conscious and subconscious levels to sway the voting public, what if all TV ads were, by law, only allowed to feature the candidate, with, say, the American flag as the backdrop, alone, speaking directly to the camera?

Ron Howard

AlonePeopleLawVotingAmerican

I tend to shut myself off from people. It's gotten harder and harder for me to meet new people. It takes a lot of effort to open up to them and spend time with them.

Julia Stiles

TimeMyselfEffortPeopleMeMeet

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.

Jonathan Winters

FunnyManFeelYouDirtyKind

From making documentaries all these years, it doesn't feel right to lead someone. In narratives, I'm always trying to shoot as though it's really happening, and I trust my actors are going to make decisions that I'm going to be following. I want to follow them.

Derek Cianfrance

TrustDecisionsFeelSomeoneTrying

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