Quotes from Denzel Washington

There's a book called "The Sociopath Next Door." I thought most sociopaths were violent. In fact, they aren't. But almost all sociopaths want to win, no matter what.

If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.

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.

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

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

I believe in God. I don't fear man, I fear God.

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.

If you don't love your fellow man, women, person, then you don't have anything. If you don't treat your neighbor as you would want to be treated that to me is the fundamental message.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

I pray that you all put your shoes way under the bed at night so that you gotta get on your knees in the morning to find them. And while you're down there thank God for grace and mercy and understanding.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

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

We've all received our share of good fortune, so that's my definition of much. A single blessing is all the bounty in the world, and if you've been blessed at all you're meant to pass some of that on. You're meant to set a positive example. That's our responsibility (20) - Denzel Washington, So that We Might Follow

He taught us that everyone has a good story and the more of others you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family (73). - Bill Clinton, Paying Attention

What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you (102) - Tony Gonzalez, The Giant Within

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do!

You have to do what you gotta do in this life in order to do what you wanna do...

I say luck is when an opportunoty comes along, and you're prepared for it.

He taught us that everyone has a story and the more you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family (73) - Bill Clinton Paying Attention

Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.