Denzel Washington quotes
- From the movie: Courage Under Fire
“I'm an officer, and therefore, by proclamation, a gentleman, but don't abuse that, son. Don't get in my crosshairs, because I'll have no compunction whatsoever about getting up to my neck in yo' ass. Do you understand me?”
- From the movie: Cry Freedom
“I just expect to be treated like you expect to be treated. Come on, what are you so afraid of? Once you try you see there's nothing to fear. We're just as weak and human as you are.”
- From the movie: Cry Freedom
“You can beat or jail me or even kill me, but I am not going to be what you want me to be!”
- From the movie: Safe House
“- Matt Weston: Are you going to kill me?
- Tobin Frost: I only kill professionals.” - From the movie: The Pelican Brief
“- Edwin Newman: She sounds almost too good to be true.
- Gray Grantham: She almost is.” - From the movie: Safe House
- From the movie: Safe House
- From the movie: Remember the Titans
“I'm not gonna talk to you tonight about winnin' and losin'. You're already winners 'cause you didn't kill each other up at camp.”
- From the movie: Safe House
“- Tobin Frost: Do I make you nervous?
- Alec Wade: Always.
- Tobin Frost: Good.” - From the movie: Remember the Titans
“- Coach Herman Boone: What about you? You going to college?
- Louie Lastik: [laughs] No, not me coach. I ain't a brainiac like Rev.
- Coach Herman Boone: Think you got a future in football?
- Louie Lastik: Heck no! I figured as long I'm going to be in school, I might as well hit some people while I'm at it.” - From the movie: Remember the Titans
“- Coach Paul 'Doc' Hines: You have twelve brothers and sisters?
- Coach Herman Boone: Eight.
- Coach Paul 'Doc' Hines: Yeah, twelve sounds better.” - From the movie: American Gangster
- From the movie: Safe House
“- Matt Weston: I'm responsible for you.
- Tobin Frost: You're responsible for yourself.” - From the movie: Ricochet
“- Nick Styles: Jesus Christ.
- Earl Talbot Blake: Almost.” “Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.”
- From the movie: The Hurricane
“I'm innocent. I've committed no crime. A crime's been committed against me.”
- From the movie: Remember the Titans
- From the movie: Ricochet
“If that's how you treat your friends, Blake, I'm glad we're enemies.”
“No matter what, no matter how hard you grab onto something. You still lose it.”
- From the movie: Cry Freedom
“You go to the city to work or shop, and you see their streets, their cars, their houses, and you begin to feel there is something not quite right about yourself. About your humanity. Something to do with your blackness because no matter how smart or dumb a white child is he is born to that world. And you, a black child, smart or dumb you are...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Glory
- From the movie: Remember the Titans
“This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law.”
- From the movie: Remember the Titans
“You look like a bunch of fifth grade sissies after a cat fight! You got anger, that's good you're gonna need it, you got aggression that's even better you're gonna need that, too. But any little two-year-old child can throw a fit! Football is about controlling that anger, harnessing that aggression into a team effort to achieve perfection!”
- From the movie: Malcolm X
“We don't know if it's obvious that God is white. The honorable Elijah Muhammed teaches us that Jesus did not have blond hair and blue eyes. The honorable Elijah Muhammed teaches us that the images of Jesus that are on prison walls and churches throughout the world are not historically correct, because history teaches us that Jesus was born in a...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Remember the Titans
“- Blue Stanton: We need a water break.
- Coach Herman Boone: A water break? Water is for cowards. Water makes you weak. Water is for washing blood off that uniform and you don't get no blood on my uniform, boy you must be outside your mind! We are going to do up-downs, until Blue is no longer tired, and thirsty.”
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