Academy Award winning actor and director Denzel Washington was born December 28, 1954 in Mt. Vernon, New York.

• "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 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."




• "You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it."




• "Acting is not life; those children are life...I don't want to be that person who says, 'Oh, God, I wasn't there. I was more thinking about me than them.' My career has been enhanced by family, stability, having birthday parties. If I didn't have a family, what would I be doing this weekend?"




• "I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question."




• "The movie's director is the pilot. It's his vision. For an actor, the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't want to fly with the director, don't get on the plane."




• "My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back."

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