Denzel Washington Quotes
There's always got to be room for what you might call benign corruption. Nobody blames a man who steals food to feed his starving children, but on the other hand, somebody who picks up a badge and takes an oath to serve and protect; we do expect a certain level of essential honesty.
Washington, Denzel. Interview. Sight & Sound, British Film Institute, 2001.
Helms and his top executives had decided to withhold from the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy assassination many of the material facts known to the CIA. The most dramatic was the fact that under Helms, the Central Intelligence Agency had hired organized crime figures to assassinate Fidel Castro, thus the Kennedy killing might have been a retaliation. This may seem shocking but the Central Intelligence Agency has been a problem ever since its inception. The agency frequently lied and withheld critical material of the President –see {634612}.
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, director, and producer. He has been described as an actor who reconfigured "the concept of classic movie stardom," mostly associating with characters defined by their grace, dignity, humanity, and inner strength. He has received seventeen NAACP Image Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, one Tony Award, and two Academy Awards from nine nominations: Best Supporting Actor for playing Union Army soldier Private Trip in the historical drama film Glory (1989), and Best Actor for his role as corrupt detective Alonzo Harris in the crime thriller Training Day (2001). In 2020, The New York Times ranked him as the greatest actor of the twenty-first century.
