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" I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me. "
Denzel Washington
Pick
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Me
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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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" When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel. "
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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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" I like talking. I like acting. "
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" I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it. "
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" If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her. "
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" My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I read the Bible every day. "
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" Growing up I didn't watch movies. "
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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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" In Los Angeles, everyone is a star. "
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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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" 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. "
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" You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib. "
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" One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy. "
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" I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule. "
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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! "
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First Time
" I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question. "
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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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" 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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" Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are. "
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" When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything! "
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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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" Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century. "
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" I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good. "
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