Denzel Washington Quotes

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself - if I want the impossible.

I can do what I want. And I always do, do what I want.

No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else

Don't do something just because someone else wants you to

Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Don't live your life to please other people.

I'll stop doing everything that I do when I don't want to do it anymore.

I'm not going to tell people how to live their life and I surely wouldn't tell people my life is the way you should be living. People get to choose what they do want to do with their life and I appreciated that.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

With Crosby, Stills, and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young... we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to.

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call.

Trends keep changing, but I have and will always do what I like to do!

I want to inspire people to follow their own dream, not what the world wants for them.