#ay

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#down #exerting #other #pulling #pushing

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#common thing #common way #excellence #thing #uncommon

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#gotta #mud #part #pray #pray for

I read the Bible every day. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#day #every #every day #i #read

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#away #child #come #could #door

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

#around #did #good #how #i

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

#both #both sides #everybody #feel #gift

It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#belong #done #get #go #go home

My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun! ↗

— Denzel Washington

#ago #bad #bad guy #first #first time

The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#been #directing #few #i #interesting