Acting Quotes by Denzel Washington

I like talking. I like acting.

— Denzel Washington

Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

— Denzel Washington

Come on, I know bad acting when I hear it.

— Denzel Washington

Family is life; acting is making a living.

— Denzel Washington

Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.

— Denzel Washington

We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.

— Denzel Washington

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

— Denzel Washington

I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.

— Denzel Washington

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

— Denzel Washington

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…

— Denzel Washington

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what…

— Denzel Washington

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,…

— Denzel Washington

It was never my dream to be famous. I didn’t start acting to be a movie star. I started in the theater…

— Denzel Washington

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…

— Denzel Washington

That's where you can find things and modulate your performance and give the other actors something fresh to respond to. We've probably…

— Denzel Washington

What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them…

— Denzel Washington