Denzel Washington movie quotes

“- Lincoln Rhyme: I want you to work the case with us.
- Amelia Donaghy: It's not my area.
- Lincoln Rhyme: Are you being modest or are you... a little uneasy about doing some real police work?”
Denzel Washington - Lincoln Rhyme
Angelina Jolie - Amelia Donaghy

“To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf.”
Denzel Washington - Alonzo

“I was special. The only colored kid in the class. I became sort of a mascot.”

Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

“- Karin Carter: Is that a real gun?
- Lt. Parker Barnes: Yes it is.
- Karin Carter: Did you have to shoot anybody?”

Kaley Cuoco - Karin Carter
Denzel Washington - Lt. Parker Barnes

“- Ben Marco: You said the army implants, they were for emergency medical data, right?
- Delp: The ones they publicized were. There was a parallel project of all kinds of scary implantables. The Clinton watch dogs finally freaked out about it, closed down.
- Ben Marco: Parallel project? How'd you know about that?
- Delp: Manchurian Global funded...” (continue)(continue reading)
Denzel Washington - Ben Marco
Bruno Ganz - Delp

“My son is dying and I'm broke. If I don't qualify for Medicare, who the hell does?”
Denzel Washington - John Quincy Archibald

“I am not going to bury my son. My son is going to bury me.”
Denzel Washington - John Quincy Archibald

“The jazz, you know if we had to dep... if we had to depend upon black people to eat, we would starve to death. I mean, you've been out there, you're on the bandstand, you look out into the audience, what do you see? You see Japanese, you see, you see West Germans, you see, you know, Slabobic, anything except our people - it makes no sense. It...” (continue)(continue reading)
Denzel Washington - Bleek Gilliam

“For all of my career, I've been trying to catch people after they do something horrible. For once in my life, I'd like to catch somebody before they do something horrible.”
Denzel Washington - Doug Carlin

“- Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: William Devereaux, you are under arrest for the torture and murder of Tariq Husseini, an American citizen.
- General William Devereaux: Is this some kind of a joke?
- Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: You see me laughing, general?”
Denzel Washington - Anthony Hubbard
Bruce Willis - General William Devereaux

“- Madison Carter: People don't usually die in games.
- Lt. Parker Barnes: Depends upon your idea of fun, doesn't it?”
Denzel Washington - Lt. Parker Barnes
Kelly Lynch - Madison Carter

“This is not surveillance. This is the actual past.”
Denzel Washington - Doug Carlin

“- Hunter: They cannot come back Weps, and you know the repercussions if we're wrong, goddamnit. Weps, if we fire now, we'll be firing when we're blind and crippled, you understand that?
- Weps: Where the fuck are you?
- Hunter: Do not remove the firing trigger! Do not open that safe, Weps. It's up to you, you're the only one who knows the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Denzel Washington - Hunter
Viggo Mortensen - Weps

“He who bemoans the lack of opportunity, forgets that small doors many times open up into large rooms.”
Denzel Washington - Rubin Carter

“I believe the true practice of Islam can remove the cancer of racism from the hearts and souls of white Americans.”
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

“Historically, there are two kinds of slaves. House Negroes and Field Negroes. The house Negro lived in the big house; he dressed pretty good; he ate pretty good and he loved the master.”
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

“London. Paris. Athens. Rome. Belfast. Beruit. We're not the first city to have to deal with terrorism. Tel Aviv. The day after they bombed the market in Tel Aviv the market was open and it was full. This is New York City. We can take it.”
Denzel Washington - Anthony Hubbard

“I'm going to take your boy Samir downtown, I'm going to strap his ass to a polygraph machine and I'm going to ask him questions about you. Then I'm going to take those transcripts, I'm going to take them to a friend of mine at the New York Times who just loves to write stories about the link between the CIA and political horror shows.”

Denzel Washington - Anthony Hubbard

“This isn't an election, this is a coup.”
Denzel Washington - Ben Marco

“Sometimes, I think the basic job that human beings have is just to figure out what the hell is going on.”
Denzel Washington - John Hobbes

“- West Indian Archie: Now you're outfitted. You ready to tackle the streets?
- Malcolm X: Yeah, I'm ready. Let them come.”

Delroy Lindo - West Indian Archie
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

“- Ramsey: The sailor most likely to win the war is the one most willing to part company with the politicians and ignore everything except the destruction of the enemy. You'd agree with that.
- Hunter: I'd agree that, um, that's what Clausewitz was trying to say.
- Ramsey: But you wouldn't agree with it?
- Hunter: No, sir, I do not. No, I just...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Hackman - Ramsey
Denzel Washington - Hunter

“Satan reasons like a man but God thinks of eternity.”
Denzel Washington - Doug Carlin

“You can march like the white man, you can talk like him. You can sing his songs, you can even wear his suits. But, you ain't never gonna be nothing to him, than an ugly ass chimp... in a blue suit.”
Denzel Washington - Pvt. Trip

“Muslims look upon themselves as human beings, as part of the human family and therefore look upon all other segments of the human family as part of that same family. Today my friends are black, brown, red, yellow and white.”
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X