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Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.
I watch Denzel Washington films with subtitles.
My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
My artist name is actually my real name - Denzel Curry.
I want to be the Denzel of acting and the Michael Jackson of music.
I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.
I like 'Denzel Washington is the Greatest Actor of All Time Period' podcast.
I'm not going to buy a magazine to read about Denzel Washington's personal life.
I'm usually the guy who says, 'Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington in the Siege'!
Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
I'm a big fan of Denzel Washington, and when I met him, he was just cool. And I was glad.
Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.
My favourite actor is Denzel Washington, he's a smooth character so he could play me too!
You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.
Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.
I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career.
Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.
I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.
Until you make a name for yourself, they're like, 'Be a little more Denzel,' 'Be a little more Wesley Snipes.'
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.
Denzel Washington: I like the collaboration, I like seeing people do well, so I really plan to direct the rest of my days.
I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
I'd love to do a movie with Denzel Washington, or some action star such as Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg would be really cool, too.
Denzel is the type of director that its more about working with him than working for him. He wants you to be thinking about everything.
Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.
I dreamed of one day starring in a film. I've done that twice. Denzel Washington has done it countless times, so I still got some work to do.
Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.
Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.
Every time I look through the lens with Denzel, I'm like a 12-year-old kid. It's hard for me to look at the monitor because the fun is in watching him.
Whether you know who Denzel Washington is or you don't, when he walks into the room, you're going to pay attention, because he's just such a powerful man.
My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
It's not everybody that can handle firing Denzel Washington or coming to blows and saying, 'This is what's happening because I said so.' Usually, it's the reverse.
I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.
Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Derek Luke and Leonardo DiCaprio inspired me the most. The rawness balanced with charisma that they all bring to the screen is awe inspiring.
The streets of New York are diverse, but when you go into a Broadway show, unless Denzel Washington is in it, or Fantasia's in it, it's a lot of old white people and gay men.
Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.
Imagine you wake up one morning with a knock at the door, and when you answer, there's Denzel Washington announcing that he's going to be filming on your street for several weeks.
Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'
What's it like finding out Denzel Washington wants you to direct his next movie? It's like getting a phone call from Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan saying they want you to coach them.
Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have been alongside the likes of Denzel Washington. But, I chose not to do those movies.
If I wasn't making music I'd still be listening to it and talking about it. That's why I'm able to chill with Denzel Curry and then Jeff Tweedy, because the thing that's linking us is music.
Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like that. The theater world has always been a leader in diversity.
Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.
It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I'm not going to be allowed to play the part that Denzel Washington plays.
I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.
Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.
I want to meet Denzel Washington when I go to the Oscars. Every man wants to see Halle Berry in person. And, you know, Dolly Parton... I wouldn't mind seeing Dolly Parton. She's from Tennessee, I'm from Tennessee.
A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.