Denzel Washington movie quotes

“Revenge is a meal best served cold.”

Denzel Washington - John W. Creasy

“There is no such thing as tough. There is trained and untrained. Now which are you?”

Denzel Washington - John W. Creasy

“- John W. Creasy: The gunshot holds no fear, say it.
- Lupita Ramos: The gunshot holds no fear.
- John W. Creasy: You welcome the sound. In fact it's the sound that sets you free. You are a prisoner on this block until that sound sets you free.”

Denzel Washington - John W. Creasy
Dakota Fanning - Lupita Ramos

“- Nephew: I don't wanna play baseball no more.
- Frank Lucas: Well, what do you want?
- Nephew: I want what you got uncle Frank. I wanna be you.”
T.I. - Nephew
Denzel Washington - Frank Lucas

“- Maubee: Ubu Pearl.
- Xavier Quinn: Who, the witch?
- Maubee: Yeah, man, Isola's aunt. She only let me visit on Monday night.
- Xavier Quinn: What if you don't?
- Maubee: I get the hex. My dick fall off and I wake up dead.
- Xavier Quinn: Shit, you'd better stick to your schedule then.
- Maubee: Yeah, man.”
Robert Townsend - Maubee
Denzel Washington - Xavier Quinn

“- John Hobbes: Why are we here? Us, humans? I mean there's six billion of us, we're like ants, I mean do we care what ants do, from a moral standpoint?
- Jonesy: No. Maybe if you figure it out, you die, you know, from a stroke or a heart attack, you just die, sort of like a promotion.”
Denzel Washington - John Hobbes
John Goodman - Jonesy

“- McKeon: His brain's not working too good right now, but from what I can tell, Maubee bet him ten thousand dollars he couldn't do what he did.
- Xavier Quinn: Which was what?
- McKeon: Drink whatever it is he's throwing up there.”

Ron Taylor - McKeon
Denzel Washington - Xavier Quinn

“- Solara: How do you know that you're walking in the right direction?
- Eli: I walk by faith, not by sight.
- Solara: What does that mean?
- Eli: It means that you know something even if you don't know something.”
Mila Kunis - Solara
Denzel Washington - Eli

“It's very important to transcend places that hold us.”
Denzel Washington - Rubin Carter

“You ain't never killed anybody before, have you? It ain't like steppin' on ants, Jake. It takes a man to kill... you man enough to kill, Jake?”
Denzel Washington - Alonzo

“- Lesra: This is some place.
- Rubin Carter: This is no place, not for a human being or anybody. Never get used to a place like this.”

Vicellous Shannon - Lesra
Denzel Washington - Rubin Carter

“Dear Lord, thank you for your protection and your many signs along the way. Thank you for any good that I may have done, I'm so sorry about the bad.”
Denzel Washington - Eli

“This is my home. My country. Frank Lucas don't run from nobody. This is America.”
Denzel Washington - Frank Lucas

“- Andrew Beckett: What I love the most about the law?
- Joe Miller: Yeah.
- Andrew Beckett: It's that every now and then, not often, but occasionally, you get to be a part of justice being done. That really is quite a thrill when that happens.”
Tom Hanks - Andrew Beckett
Denzel Washington - Joe Miller

“- Hunter: Thank you, COB.
- Cob: Thank you? Fuck you! Get it straight Mr Hunter, I'm not on your side. Now you could be wrong! But wrong or right, the Captain can't just replace you at will. That was completely improper! And that's why I did what I did. By the book.
- Hunter: I thank you anyway.”

Denzel Washington - Hunter
George Dzundza - Cob

“Something is always happening, but when it happens, people don't always see it, or understand it... or accept it.”
Denzel Washington - John Hobbes

“- Shanti: The traditional view of time is linear, like a river, flowing from the past towards the future.
- Doug Carlin: But you can change the course of a river, right?
- Shanti: Exactly. Introduce a significant enough event at any point in this river and you create a new branch, still flowing toward the future, but along a different route....” (continue)(continue reading)
Erika Alexander - Shanti
Denzel Washington - Doug Carlin

“Ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody.”
Denzel Washington - Frank Lucas

“Hey, don't get sentimental on me. Makes me think I'm gonna die.”

Denzel Washington - Frank

“- John Hobbes: Can I ask you a personal question?
- Gretta Milano: Everything is personal, if you're a person.”
Denzel Washington - John Hobbes
Embeth Davidtz - Gretta Milano

“- Xavier Quinn: You want a beer, Jump?
- Jump Jones: Do the damned need salvation?”
Denzel Washington - Xavier Quinn
Art Evans - Jump Jones

“- Fred Miller: Who the hell was that?
- Xavier Quinn: Ubu Pearl, the local witch.
- Fred Miller: I'm gettin' to like this place more and more.”
M. Emmet Walsh - Fred Miller
Denzel Washington - Xavier Quinn

“- Ben Marco: This is rich people, Manchurian Global, funding bad science, to put a sleeper in the White House, and that's what's going on Rosie. That's what's going on.
- Rosie: I want to believe you.
- Ben Marco: Well, then believe me. Help me.”
Denzel Washington - Ben Marco
Kimberly Elise - Rosie

“This ain't training. In training, they just give you an F. Out here, you get killed.”

Denzel Washington - Frank

“- Doug Carlin: Now the monitor is broken. It's dead. It's not temporarily transitioned to another state of entropy, it's dead. Right. Now is she alive or is she dead?
- Denny: She's alive.
- Doug Carlin: Alright. Now we're getting somewhere.”

Denzel Washington - Doug Carlin
Adam Goldberg - Denny