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" I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation. "
Denzel Washington
Work
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" Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child. "
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" I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated. "
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" Growing up I didn't watch movies. "
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" My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back. "
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" I like talking. I like acting. "
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" Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around. "
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" Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century. "
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" You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib. "
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" My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque. "
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" The poorest people are the sweetest people. "
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" I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule. "
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" 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. "
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" I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office. "
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" The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then. "
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" My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family. "
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" I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies. "
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" Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it. "
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" You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity. "
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" I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it. "
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" I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me. "
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" I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter. "
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" I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with. "
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" If you don't trust the pilot, don't go. "
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" Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift. "
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" You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it. "
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" It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at. "
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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. "
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" I've worked with children all my life. "
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" One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy. "
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