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Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.


Dayo Okeniyi

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DAYO OKENIYI My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. T...
ADAM HICKS You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.
LEIGH STEINBERG I think one of the main reasons it did so well was Denzel Washington,
ERIK LOMIS I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career.
SHEMAR MOORE Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if y...
MARLEE MATLIN I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a...
ALBERT BROOKS Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ens...
PEARL CLEAGE Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
SETH MACFARLANE Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.
DEAN CAIN I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written...
WENTWORTH MILLER I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washingto...
OMARI HARDWICK I'd love to do a movie with Denzel Washington, or some action star such as Matt Damon or Mark Wa...
TAYLOR LAUTNER Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting D...
OCTAVIA SPENCER I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I l...
ATO ESSANDOH Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have ...
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; with...
DENZEL WASHINGTON I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.
DENZEL WASHINGTON A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don'...
DENZEL WASHINGTON I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my...
DENZEL WASHINGTON You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.
DENZEL WASHINGTON When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Chri...
DENZEL WASHINGTON I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and th...
DENZEL WASHINGTON Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
DENZEL WASHINGTON If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.
DENZEL WASHINGTON Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
DENZEL WASHINGTON The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. N...
DENZEL WASHINGTON My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque...
DENZEL WASHINGTON It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home...
DENZEL WASHINGTON The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, i...
DENZEL WASHINGTON I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my...
DENZEL WASHINGTON The poorest people are the sweetest people.
DENZEL WASHINGTON If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into t...
DENZEL WASHINGTON If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.
DENZEL WASHINGTON In any profession it gets to be a grind.
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 I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical backgro...
DENZEL WASHINGTON My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frigh...
DENZEL WASHINGTON You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get...
DENZEL WASHINGTON Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She...
DENZEL WASHINGTON Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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DENZEL WASHINGTON I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my ...
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DENZEL WASHINGTON We just go. It's a shorthand. It's familiar.
DENZEL WASHINGTON Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I actually sat out in the audience a few times with my mother.
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DENZEL WASHINGTON My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my moth...
DENZEL WASHINGTON Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life
DENZEL WASHINGTON Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
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DENZEL WASHINGTON It's not only a pleasure, but an honor for me to be here tonight.
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DENZEL WASHINGTON If there is a political message I don't know what it is. Don't rob a bank?
DENZEL WASHINGTON It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by...
BRIAN DENNEHY Whether you know who Denzel Washington is or you don't, when he walks into the room, you're ...
MILA KUNIS Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers....
JAMES EARL JONES Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's ...
DEREK LUKE In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
PAMELA ANDERSON I want to meet Denzel Washington when I go to the Oscars. Every man wants to see Halle Berry in pers...
JUICY J I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three mon...
WENTWORTH MILLER An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine D...
DONALD FAISON Yes, I do strive to be someone young women can look up to.
CHYLER LEIGH Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audience...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN What's it like finding out Denzel Washington wants you to direct his next movie? It's like g...
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BILLY EICHNER Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film ...
MAHERSHALA ALI She's got a compelling story and is someone we think can bring real change to Washington.
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MICHAEL IRVIN Someone in Washington needs to get serious about fixing the tax code. That is what needs to happen.
HEATHER BRESCH A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... ...
WALTER MOSLEY My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
NADINE VELAZQUEZ One of the biggest guys I worked with was Sean Connery. People like Sean, Michael Caine, Denzel Wash...
LIAM CUNNINGHAM Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah C...
JOHN C. MAXWELL I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lo...
BARKHAD ABDI Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.
JOSHUA MICAH MARSHALL Don't look too healthy or they'll send you to Washington to testify.
IMELDA MARCOS She was considerate, professional, sympathetic and friendly. She was someone you look up to.
RANJIT SINGH Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set th...
NICOLE RICHIE To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY It’s certainly TOUGH being AWESOME all
the time, but I do it so the kids have someone to loo...
TANYA MASSE A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
JOE BIDEN I want to go to Washington and clean up Kay Hagan's mess.
THOM TILLIS I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.
HILARY SWANK My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master&#...
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TOM BRADY It's a good lesson for everyone that you don't have to be the next Denzel Washington or Halle Berry ...
CAROL HUNTER Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. Say it.
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