Denzel Washington Quotes

I like talking; I like playing with the audience.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

I guess a lot of people don't like talking.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

I actually like talking.

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.

I like to talk. I admit it.

I like talking.

People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.

Every time you're on stage, you're acting.

The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.

I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.

I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

Music is a dialogue.