Denzel Washington Quotes
My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
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I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
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This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.
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Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
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The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.
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There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.
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If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.
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I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.
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I just don't know what to do with my timeI'm so lonesome for you it's a crimeGoing to the movie only makes me sadParties make me feel as badWhen I'm not with youI just don't know what to do
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I love 'Airplane,' the 'Naked Gun' films; everything the Zucker brothers have done is just awesome.
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Exchange implies equality.
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My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.
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My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!
