Denzel Washington Quotes
The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.
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I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.
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The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.
