Denzel Washington Quotes

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.

Denzel Washington

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodMeThinkingSitHeHow

Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.

Jerry Lewis

LifeYouTakeCannotInterviews

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

John Gunther

GoodCountryGood IdeaOnlyIdea

New Yorkers were grateful when Donald J. Trump finished ahead of schedule and under budget in renovating the Wollman Memorial Rink, where the city had spent six years and $12 million trying to produce ice.

Andrew Rosenthal

GratefulCityBudgetTryingIceNew

There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.

John Prescott

MeYouSaidYesOutConnect

I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.

Steven Millhauser

CreativityChildhoodChildPeople

My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.

Mike Myers

FunnyFatherManPeopleLaughHim

I spent my entire first pay cheque from 'Cracker,' a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.

Josh Hartnett

WorkCarDownFirstPayGet

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'

Jonathan Kozol

PeopleCityBookThoughtGoKnow

I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.

David Shields

I AmThinkBoredFormConventional

Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.

Bozoma Saint John

LiePeopleVoiceYouSometimesTalk

I do like large entrances, but this was a little too large.

Peter Bergman

LittleLikeLargeToo

I stay at home a lot by choice but go out a lot due to work. As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.

Paul Wesley

WorkLoveGoodHomeSimpleMe

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