Denzel Washington

We rehearsed for two weeks [in "Fences"], and we taped out the whole house in the front, and the rooms, and we…

— Denzel Washington

In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He…

— Denzel Washington

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

— Denzel Washington

I called Scott Rudin, and I told him I wanted to do the play [Fences], so that's how the ball got rolling.…

— Denzel Washington

I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them…

— Denzel Washington

I talked to my mother about it a lot. I asked her what it was like to grow up in New York…

— Denzel Washington

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

— Denzel Washington

[Movie "Fences"] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.

— Denzel Washington

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

— Denzel Washington

Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means.…

— Denzel Washington

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

— Denzel Washington

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened…

— Denzel Washington

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother…

— Denzel Washington

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in…

— Denzel Washington

I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts…

— Denzel Washington

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

— Denzel Washington

Say what you really want to say.

— Denzel Washington

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities…

— Denzel Washington

My mother used to tell me: "You gotta smile more. Because if you don't smile, the way you look at people, they'll…

— Denzel Washington

Revenge is a meal best served cold.

— Denzel Washington

It is very important to transcend the places that hold us.

— Denzel Washington

It's very important to transcend places that hold us.

— 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

I never tell anyone what to take away from a movie.

— Denzel Washington

If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.

— Denzel Washington