Isaiah Washington
Isaiah Washington
Isaiah Washington IVis an American actor. A veteran of several Spike Lee films, Washington is best known for his role as Dr. Preston Burke on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy from 2005 until 2007. Washington currently plays Thelonius Jaha on The CW's The 100...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth3 August 1963
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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Humanity is in my heart. Do I suffer fools? No. Am I a stickler for my profession? Yes. I am a task master? Yes. My military background, football background, I'm a team player all the way, and I love winning.
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Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in Hollywood, specifically, is not depicting people of color; we're not even talking about Asian Americans or Latino Americans; we're not even getting into that question.
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I'm no longer going to play thugs or debauched cops that I can't possibly make complex characters. I'm bigger than that. I owe too much to too many good people at the Goodman, Arena and Playwrights Horizons.
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I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anatomy.'
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Everything is not black-and-white. I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful.
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Falling in love is easy, but somebody tell me how to stay there.
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People forget that it's an acting assignment. You can work with someone for three months, three years or 30 years, and then you move on. I've done I don't know how many films, and I can look at the film and know that I worked with Clint Eastwood, but I'm not still trying to hang out with Clint Eastwood. We did our jobs.
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You need a blueprint to build a house because you need to know how far the concrete is going to be poured and you need to know how think the walls have to be.
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You don't want to be on a show that no one wants to see, and then think your phone is going to be ringing off the hook to do other jobs. I'm not tethered to the fact that my demise may be reached this season or next season, or whatever.
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I laugh a lot and laugh loudly!
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Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.
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Becoming a junior usher at a black church was my entry into the wonder of worship.
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I enjoy bringing humanity to complex characters.
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Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.