Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; with...
DENZEL WASHINGTON I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.
DENZEL WASHINGTON A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don'...
DENZEL WASHINGTON I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my...
DENZEL WASHINGTON You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.
DENZEL WASHINGTON When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Chri...
DENZEL WASHINGTON I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and th...
DENZEL WASHINGTON Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
DENZEL WASHINGTON If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.
DENZEL WASHINGTON Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
DENZEL WASHINGTON The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. N...
DENZEL WASHINGTON My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque...
DENZEL WASHINGTON It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home...
DENZEL WASHINGTON The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, i...
DENZEL WASHINGTON I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my...
DENZEL WASHINGTON The poorest people are the sweetest people.
DENZEL WASHINGTON If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into t...
DENZEL WASHINGTON If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.
DENZEL WASHINGTON In any profession it gets to be a grind.
DENZEL WASHINGTON When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened ...
DENZEL WASHINGTON I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical backgro...
DENZEL WASHINGTON My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frigh...
DENZEL WASHINGTON You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get...
DENZEL WASHINGTON Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She...
DENZEL WASHINGTON I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it...
DENZEL WASHINGTON I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my ...
DENZEL WASHINGTON Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a...
DENZEL WASHINGTON We just go. It's a shorthand. It's familiar.
DENZEL WASHINGTON Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I actually sat out in the audience a few times with my mother.
DENZEL WASHINGTON [Roberts, who starred opposite Washington in] The Pelican Brief, ... the best actor of this generati...
DENZEL WASHINGTON My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my moth...
DENZEL WASHINGTON Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life
DENZEL WASHINGTON Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
DENZEL WASHINGTON A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, ''Oh, I do...
DENZEL WASHINGTON It's not only a pleasure, but an honor for me to be here tonight.
DENZEL WASHINGTON When they said my name, I said, 'There is no way I can go up here without sharing it with Rubin,' .....
DENZEL WASHINGTON I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long...
DENZEL WASHINGTON You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity...
DENZEL WASHINGTON If there is a political message I don't know what it is. Don't rob a bank?
DENZEL WASHINGTON The festival has grown again since last year. This year they added a ninth stage - the BBC Radio 3 W...
DIETER VAN DENZEL We rarely have time for sound-checks and of course there are a lot of visiting engineers around all ...
DIETER VAN DENZEL Good things come to those who wait but why wait when all good things come too a end.
DENZEL A NUSRE We shouldn't be seeking the respect of an unjust system that will not respect us on the basis of our...
MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it&...
KERRY WASHINGTON What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of...
WALTER WASHINGTON Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people wor...
WALTER WASHINGTON Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal...
WASHINGTON IRVING One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
WASHINGTON IRVING There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad ...
WASHINGTON IRVING There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in tra...
WASHINGTON IRVING The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
WASHINGTON IRVING Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
WASHINGTON IRVING Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
WASHINGTON IRVING There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad dayligh...
WASHINGTON IRVING Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
WASHINGTON ALLSTON Never judge a work of art by its defects.
WASHINGTON ALLSTON The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
WASHINGTON ALLSTON I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dis...
MARTHA WASHINGTON The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
MARTHA WASHINGTON Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly...
WASHINGTON IRVING Everything is not black-and-white. I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, n...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON You will therefore send me none but Natives, and Men of some property, if you have them.
GEORGE WASHINGTON To morrow being the day set apart by the Honorable Congress for public Thanksgiving and Praise; and ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in h...
GEORGE WASHINGTON We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, s...
GEORGE WASHINGTON No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of me...
GEORGE WASHINGTON It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoy...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Enjoin this upon the Officers, and let them inculcate, and press home to the Soldiery, the Necessity...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppre...
GEORGE WASHINGTON To admit then a right in the House of Representatives to demand, and to have as a matter of course, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the mos...
GEORGE WASHINGTON For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I have beheld no day since the commencement of hostilities that I have thought her liberties in such...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be draw...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denominat...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shr...
WASHINGTON IRVING Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
WASHINGTON IRVING A woman's life is a history of the affections.
WASHINGTON IRVING Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them you...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due
GEORGE WASHINGTON The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability ...
WASHINGTON IRVING The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pr...
GEORGE WASHINGTON To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a go...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.
GEORGE WASHINGTON A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
WASHINGTON IRVING True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is ent...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contendi...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumst...
MARTHA WASHINGTON Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their...
WASHINGTON IRVING I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no busi...
WASHINGTON IRVING It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with cons...
WASHINGTON IRVING They who drink beer will think beer.
WASHINGTON IRVING My Mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my Mother. I attribute all my s...
GEORGE WASHINGTON A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity t...
WASHINGTON IRVING Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
WASHINGTON IRVING In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinio...
WASHINGTON IRVING An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil ...
WASHINGTON IRVING 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
GEORGE WASHINGTON The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
WASHINGTON IRVING Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience
GEORGE WASHINGTON There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveli...
WASHINGTON IRVING Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
GEORGE WASHINGTON The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be suppla...
WASHINGTON IRVING The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
WASHINGTON IRVING There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
WASHINGTON IRVING It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
GEORGE WASHINGTON A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
WASHINGTON IRVING Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wis...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern a...
WASHINGTON IRVING Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
GEORGE WASHINGTON There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
WASHINGTON IRVING Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lea...
WASHINGTON IRVING I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
WASHINGTON IRVING There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
WASHINGTON IRVING There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
WASHINGTON IRVING Yet, still, from either beach, The voice of blood shall reach, More audible than speech, ...
WASHINGTON ALLSTON 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
GEORGE WASHINGTON To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will bu...
CRAIG WASHINGTON As I sat on a sunny bank On Christmas day in the morning I spied three ships come sailing in.
WASHINGTON IRVING I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispo...
MARTHA WASHINGTON Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigoro...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them you...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Written about Washington after his death by another of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson: His m...
GEORGE WASHINGTON To err is natural; to rectify error is glory.
GEORGE WASHINGTON In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washingt...
GEORGE WASHINGTON To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace.
GEORGE WASHINGTON The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I die hard but am not afraid to go.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic...
GEORGE WASHINGTON When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who wo...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon
GEORGE WASHINGTON As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselve...
GEORGE WASHINGTON An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass
GEORGE WASHINGTON "The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just p...
GEORGE WASHINGTON A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true c...
GEORGE WASHINGTON True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity befo...
GEORGE WASHINGTON When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he im...
GEORGE WASHINGTON One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, f...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the plac...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Following his brief inaugural address to the Congress, President George Washington and his party wal...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us thro...
GEORGE WASHINGTON My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my succe...
GEORGE WASHINGTON A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity tak...
WASHINGTON IRVING Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
WASHINGTON IRVING Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plai...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a f...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
WASHINGTON IRVING Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

GEORGE WASHINGTON Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
GEORGE WASHINGTON It is better to be alone than in bad company.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Is...
KERRY WASHINGTON Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proporti...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
WASHINGTON IRVING I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I...
KERRY WASHINGTON I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan ado...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since child...
KERRY WASHINGTON My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is wor...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
MARTHA WASHINGTON