Denzel Washington Quotes

I was raised as a real worker: you know, you get out and get a real job.

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.

My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

I think if I'd never had found pro wrestling, I'd be a blue collar guy, working a 9-to-5 job.

Me, I'm a working-class man, and I go to my job, put in the work, and walk away clean and unscathed, and I like it that way.

I just try to be a regular dude.

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.

I am an ordinary person.

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my career has developed.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

I've never viewed myself as above anybody else or anything like that. I'm a regular guy at the end of the day. I like Cinnamon Toast Crunch and The Powerpuff Girls.

Both me and my parents wanted me to lead a normal life, work in a normal '10 to 5' job and put my education to good use.

This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.

I'm just a normal lad.

I've worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a 'sandwich artist' at Subway.

For me, 'Harry Potter' isn't something that changed my life. It's just something I did that was a lot of fun and I got to experience amazing things from. But my actual, personal life is the same. Or at least I like to keep it the same.

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.

I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you can't be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

I could never drive in a great big car; people like me because I'm a man of the people, a hustler.

People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.