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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. "

Denzel Washington

Age

Work

Woman

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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. "

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

Denzel Washington

Pick

Scripts

" 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. "

" I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Growing up I didn't watch movies. "

" My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque. "

" Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy. "

" My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family. "

" I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office. "

" 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. "

Denzel Washington

Thinking

Sit

" You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib. "

Denzel Washington

You

Happen

" If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her. "

" I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Denzel Washington

Messed Up

Home

" I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. "

Denzel Washington

Laziness

Been

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "