Denzel Washington Quotes

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

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

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

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.

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

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

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

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

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

I pray that you all put your shoes way under the bed at night so that you gotta get on your knees in the morning to find them. And while you’re down there thank God for grace and mercy and understanding. We all fall short of the glory, we all got plenty.

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.

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

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.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

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.

Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?