Denzel Washington Quotes

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

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

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don’t know what a child actor is. She’s an actor who’s a child.

Dreams without goals, are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment.

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.

The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love…the faith that you have – that’s what’s going to define your 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.

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.

I like talking. I like acting.

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.

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

It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove.

You can’t break me because you didn’t make me.

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