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Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington made his film debut in the movie, A Carbon Copy. But it wasn't until his role on television's St. Elsewhere that Washington began to become a major star in his own right. His first of five Academy Award nominations was for 1987's Cry Freedom. He took home Best Supporting Actor honors for Glory two years later. Washingt…

Date of Birth: December 28, 1954

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"Spike really started me on this path many moons ago. Now, it really helps me do my job. [Improvising] helps me work."

Denzel Washington

"I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it."

Denzel Washington Topics: American Actor Luck

"Luck is where opportunity meets preparation."

Denzel Washington Topics: American Actor

"We just go. It's a shorthand. It's familiar."

Denzel Washington

"We do what we have to do so we can do what we want to do."

Denzel Washington Topics: Sports

"Growing up I didn't watch movies."

Denzel Washington Topics: American Actor

"I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter."

Denzel Washington Topics: American Actor

"If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it."

Denzel Washington Topics: American Actor

"[Roberts, who starred opposite Washington in] The Pelican Brief, ... the best actor of this generation, hands down."

Denzel Washington

"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially."

Denzel Washington

"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially."

Denzel Washington Topics: American Actor

"I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood."

Denzel Washington Topics: American Actor

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

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"I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me."

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"I've worked with children all my life."

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"When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going."

Denzel Washington Topics: American Actor

"You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it."

Denzel Washington Topics: American Actor

"I really want my father's life to be portrayed honestly. I don't want people getting drawn into the theatre because they want to see the last scene where he's shot and killed."

Denzel Washington Topics: Life

"I actually sat out in the audience a few times with my mother."

Denzel Washington Topics: Mother

"The hat kept the sun off of me but, to be honest, it's a handle. I worked the hat. We had one hat and one tie, by the way. I don't know if anyone knows this, but by the last scene in the movie at the restaurant, the hat is falling apart."

Denzel Washington

"I'm on a plane tonight. No partying tonight. I gotta hit it, I gotta do what I gotta do so I can do what I want to do. I gotta work. They call it show business."

Denzel Washington

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