Quotes by Isaiah Washington - Page 1

I laugh a lot and laugh loudly!
Isaiah Washington / Actor
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Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
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I am not homophobic - in no way, shape or form.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Shape
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I enjoy bringing humanity to complex characters.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Character
Enjoy
Humanity
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I love Facebook. I could brush my teeth with Facebook.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Teeth
Brush
Facebook
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Falling in love is easy, but somebody tell me how to stay there.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Fall
Falling In Love
Love Is
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Becoming a junior usher at a black church was my entry into the wonder of worship.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Black
Church
Juniors
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Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Guy
Hard Work
Interesting
Bad Guy
Work Hard
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I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anatomy.'
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Anatomy
Grey
Grey's Anatomy
Dr
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I didn't know what gay was until I lived in New York for 10 years. You know, I was just underexposed in that regard.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Regard
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I've been so incredibly blessed. I've worked with some of the greatest professionals in town. I stood at the Golden Globes.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Blessed
Golden
Incredibly
Professionals
Stood
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The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Average
Average Person
Assumes
First Thing
The First Thing
Tv Show
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It's, like, bigots want to embrace me, and I politely take their arms from around my neck. I don't share their views - never have.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Arms
Bigots
Embrace
Views
Neck
Politely
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I hate the term 'black' because it doesn't bring to life who we are as a people. The term 'black' has more negative synonyms than the term white.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Negative
Term
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I've written a book; I've become a better husband and father because I'm home every day. My connection to the Hollywood world has only been through Facebook.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Hollywood
Husband
Home World Father
Connection
Facebook
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You need a blueprint to build a house because you need to know how far the concrete is going to be poured and you need to know how think the walls have to be.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
House
Thinking
Wall
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I'm a human being first and foremost, and I have something to say that I think is worthwhile. 'Blue Caprice' is just the second installment of so much more coming.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Blue
Caprice
Worthwhile
Coming
First
Foremost
Human Being
Installment
Second
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Whatever I'm throwing out there in my work, you either catch that detail because you're ready to catch it, but if you're not, that's OK - you're still being entertained.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Throwing
Catch
Detail
Entertained
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I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything else in this lifetime than an African American man.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Attention
Lifetime
African
Male
Anything Else
Became
Challenge
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Not just art for art's sake, but I want to have films out there that will provoke authentic, holistic conversations about the human condition. And not provide the easy answers, but put it out there.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Answers
Holistic
Human Condition
Sake
Condition
Authentic
Conversations
Provide
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I'm no longer going to play thugs or debauched cops that I can't possibly make complex characters. I'm bigger than that. I owe too much to too many good people at the Goodman, Arena and Playwrights Horizons.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Arena
Bigger
Good People
Too Much
Good People Good People
Complex
Cops
Good Good People People
Horizons
Owe
Longer
Playwrights
Thugs
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Humanity is in my heart. Do I suffer fools? No. Am I a stickler for my profession? Yes. I am a task master? Yes. My military background, football background, I'm a team player all the way, and I love winning.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Humanity
Military
Profession
Team
Winning
Background
Master
Fools
Suffer
Task
Yes
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You don't want to be on a show that no one wants to see, and then think your phone is going to be ringing off the hook to do other jobs. I'm not tethered to the fact that my demise may be reached this season or next season, or whatever.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Jobs
Phones
Thinking
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Everything is not black-and-white. I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Divine
Genesis
Gray
Gray Area
Order
Our Lives
Ugly
Area
Beautiful People See
Interested
Event
Glorifying
Having
Justifying
Least
Some
Whether
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Everything is not black-and-white . I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Beautiful
Black And White
Divine Order
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Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in Hollywood, specifically, is not depicting people of color; we're not even talking about Asian Americans or Latino Americans; we're not even getting into that question.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Broken
Color
Discourse
Hollywood
Latino
Public Discourse
Depicting
Political System
Specifically
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The whole time I was on 'Grey's,' I'm still reconciling myself to my 11-year-old son, because he never saw me during that time. By the time he got up, he'd see a dent in his pillow, but by the time I got home, he was already asleep. So for three years, he had a daddy that he never saw because I had to work.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Daddy
Grey
Pillow
Son
Time Work Home
Asleep
By The Time
Dent
Work Time Home
Saw
Reconciling
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People forget that it's an acting assignment. You can work with someone for three months, three years or 30 years, and then you move on. I've done I don't know how many films, and I can look at the film and know that I worked with Clint Eastwood, but I'm not still trying to hang out with Clint Eastwood. We did our jobs.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Jobs
Moving
Years
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I firmly believe that we are all given signs and dreams and put in situations that define who we were and who we are to become. All of it points towards our destiny. All we need to do is listen carefully to the messages and follow our dreams. It is in our dreams that we find our true identities and where our destiny awaits.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Dream
Believe
Destiny
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I would still work with Mel Gibson! He's talented, man! Come on, he came up with 'Apocalypto,' man! I want to work with this guy. I've worked with Steven Seagal. He's out of his mind. I mean, I've worked with Spike Lee for four films. I've worked with some people that you can say are right there teetering between genius and madness.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Madness
Talented
Gibson
Lee
Some People
Spike
Spike Lee
Steven
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