Denzel Washington Quotes

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

Denzel Washington

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• Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Way
  • Know
  • Myself

• What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Value

• Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • History
  • Mother
  • Poetry

• I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.

  

  Vanessa Ray
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Life
  • Death
  • Waiting

• I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Reading

• It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Black
  • You
  • Poor

• I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Trying
  • Idea
  • Someone

• There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Different
  • Think
  • Need

• The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.

  

  Alfred Adler
  • Power
  • Feeling
  • Psychology

• In secret we metIn silence I grieve,That thy heart could forget,Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long years,How should I greet thee?With silence and tears.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Silence

• The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Education
  • Habit

• People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Long
  • Live

• Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • World
  • Trying

• Reagan wrote out many of his radio commentaries and newspaper articles as well as many of his own speeches. He wrote poetry, short stories, and letters. Trump, in his own hand, writes 140-character tweets.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Character
  • Hand
  • Poetry

• For falsification to constitute an offence there must be proof of "intent to deceive." This is a legally prescribed element of the offence and is negated when the report is submitted in conformity with orders from a higher authority in possession of the true facts.

  

  George Scratchley Brown
  • Facts
  • Authority
  • Proof

• It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

  

  Michael C. Hall
  • Interesting
  • Roles
  • Convince

• In my early days, I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Career
  • Rock stuff

• When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • World
  • Mother
  • Yourself

• I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.

  

  Brendan Coyle
  • Job
  • Dream

• I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

  

  Denzel Washington