Denzel Washington Men Quotations

Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: "My god is right, yours is wrong." Religion to me is the human condition. "If you're a Muslim, you can't be a Christian." That to me is religion.

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.

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children" (217) - John Singleton "Oh Man, I've Become My Father

Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.

At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back" (23).

One failed experiment is one step closer to Success

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.

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

Money doesn't buy happiness. Some people say it's a heck of a down payment, though.

You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse,

Dreams without goals, are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment.

People have said to me for a long time, "Man you're funny." I say, "Well, I'm quick," but being funny on purpose, take after take - that's why I said for me it was new territory, and so by improvising something might come out that might be good. And it's film, so they can cut it if it isn't.

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.

A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

There's always got to be room for what you might call benign corruption. Nobody blames a man who steals food to feed his starving children, but on the other hand, somebody who picks up a badge and takes an oath to serve and protect; we do expect a certain level of essential honesty.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

When they said my name, I said, 'There is no way I can go up here without sharing it with Rubin,' ... Everything that has happened with this film and this moment is about the love that has come from him.

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

A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?