Denzel Washington Quotes About Acting
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You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.
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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.
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I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
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We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.
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Come on, I know bad acting when I hear it.
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It was never my dream to be famous. I didn't start acting to be a movie star. I started in the theater and my desire was to get better at my craft. It's still my desire. I don't consider myself a movie star, nor do I really have the desire to be one. I'm just an entertainer. An actor who works hard at his craft. Whatever labels people give me, that's not really me or part of my process.
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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 practice to music and you just play it.
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That's where you can find things and modulate your performance and give the other actors something fresh to respond to. We've probably all worked with actors who when it's suddenly your close up, they get sleepy. I don't like that. It's selfish acting, and I won't tolerate it.
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One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.
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Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.
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Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
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What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."
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Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.
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I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.
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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 a human being; my profession is acting. People give you titles. They say you're an up and coming star, then they say you're a star, then they say you're a washed-up star. So I don't get caught up in what I'm called. My job, my profession, is acting.
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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, celebrity.
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