"I think a role model is a..." - Quote by Denzel Washington

“I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.”

“As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.”

“My mother used to tell me: "You gotta smile more. Because if you don't smile, the way you look at people, they'll think you're mad at them."”

“A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself.”

“What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?”

“If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.”

“I can help someone grow their business 130% in 12 to 18 months only because I've done that with so many of my own and have faced so many challenges.”

“Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.”

“Use your past as one of your mentors.”