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
acting family
Family is life; acting is making a living.
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.
life family acting
Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
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.
inspirational motivational acting
Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.
work
I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.
We just go. It's a shorthand. It's familiar.
In any profession it gets to be a grind.
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."
jobs stars giving
I'm not a big Hollywood star. I'm an actor. I'm called a star. That's not what I am. First of all I'm a human being; my profession is acting. People give you titles. They say you're an up and coming star, then they say you're a star, then they say you're a washed-up star. So I don't get caught up in what I'm called. My job, my profession, is acting.