Denzel Washington Quotes

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss, or dream? Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt by the heart.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

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.

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.

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.

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

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

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.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

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.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.