Crafting Your Masterpiece: Insights from Denzel Washington on Ownership and Growth
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As an actor, you’re a color of paint on someone else’s palette. But as a director, it’s your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.
- Denzel Washington
Every punch that’s thrown is mine. Every punch that’s caught, I catch...
- Denzel Washington
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
- Denzel Washington
That’s what I tell young actors. “You don’t have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role.”
- Denzel Washington
I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
- 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 life.
- 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 I’m interested in doing.
- Denzel Washington
My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!
- Denzel Washington
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