"I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away..." - Quote by Denzel Washington

“When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!”

“What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."”

“In any profession it gets to be a grind.”

“I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.”

“The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.”

“No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.”

“The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.”

“The past does not equal the future.”

“I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.”