Denzel Washington

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

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

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.