Quotes By Denzel Washington

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.

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.

I've worked with children all my life.

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.

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

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

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

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

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.

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

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

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

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.