Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received three Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical war drama film Gloryand Best Actor for his role as a corrupt cop in the crime thriller Training Day...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth28 December 1954
CityMount Vernon, NY
CountryUnited States of America
morning children acting
Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.
practice play acting
Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.
acting retiring great-things
We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.
acting weird-things knows
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.
acting film good-things
One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.
acting film reason
The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.
waiting actors roles
That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."
christian men spirituality
Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: "My god is right, yours is wrong." Religion to me is the human condition. "If you're a Muslim, you can't be a Christian." That to me is religion.
nice home people
There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.
dog cat independent
Cats are too independent. They piss me off. They play when they want, and then they turn their back on you. Dogs, you throw the ball, and they bring it back, tongue hanging out, tail wagging. Cats are like "Not right now, too busy." Definitely a dog man. Except when it comes to cleaning up after them! Cats win that!
real old-friends actors
I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.
thinking knows
I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.
winning sociopath
A sociopath will do anything to win. Anything.
thinking trying want
I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.