Denzel Washington Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
-
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
-
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
-
My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
-
I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
-
The less I talk about being black, the better.
-
To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.
-
So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
-
Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.
-
I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.
-
People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.
-
I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.
-
I read the script for 'Somnia' when I was filming 'Oculus,' and I remember calling my manager going, 'I really need to do this movie,' and he's like, 'How about you finish this one first and then you see it?' I was like, 'I don't need to. I don't need to. You need to read this. I need to do this movie. The script is very good.'
-
I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.
-
If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.
-
I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
-
I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, I kind of got kind of good at it. You know, I had a brief moment where I wasn't sure if I could do it. I didn't know you needed light to expose film.
-
Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
-
I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.
-
Paris, as modern city is beautiful in its perfection, but perfection means death and decay. Thus interfering with the process of dying is a crime against perfection: it stands in the way of a higher perfection.
-
L.A. is conventional to a hyper-real degree. It's plastic.
-
I want that longevity in the career, so if you don't know how to get it, you trying to chase that high, you trying to continue to chase your dreams and conquer things you never thought you could get. And you just want to get there too soon, so you taking the wrong moves to try and compensate what's not happening.
-
Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.
-
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.
