I read the Bible every day.

- Denzel Washington

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.

- Denzel Washington

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

- Denzel Washington

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.

- Denzel Washington

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.

- Denzel Washington

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

- Denzel Washington

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

- 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've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

- Denzel Washington

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

- Denzel Washington

I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.

- Denzel Washington

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.

- Denzel Washington

I like talking. I like acting.

- Denzel Washington

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

- Denzel Washington

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

- Denzel Washington

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.

- Denzel Washington

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

- Denzel Washington

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

- Denzel Washington

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

- Denzel Washington

I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

- Denzel Washington