*One of the great things we like about Denzel Washington is that he’s very secure in who he is. He’s not into being out and about trying to show up in all the celebrity blogs, etc.
Another thing he doesn’t do is hang out with high-profile industry folk. In fact, he says for the most part, he doesn’t have any actor friends and that’s just the way he prefers it.
“Actually, even within the industry, I don’t have any actor friends,” the Oscar winning thespian told Xan Brooks of the The Guardian. “My friends are old friends. One’s an ex-music guy, the other’s a restaurant owner and the other’s an ex-pro ballplayer.”
Hmm, interesting. Now, you may be wondering what’s up with that. Why does Denzel not have actor friends
“Because I don’t make friends! Maybe I’m not a butt-kisser, maybe I’m not a schmoozer,” he informs. “I’m not about to go to a party to try to get a job. And then when you have children, the other friends become other parents. We’d coach baseball or basketball. My wife and I were raised right. I don’t want movie-star friends. And being African American, there were no big movie stars to hang out with anyway, not when I was starting out, they were just the third guy from the back! For whatever reason, I never befriended any white actors.”
(Oh, by the way, Yahoo notes that one of Washington’s public relations representatives later offer a clarification on the Guardian story: “I sat in on this interview,” the rep said. “The part they failed to mention was after he said ‘never befriended any white actors’ he mentioned ‘except,’ and then listed Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, etc. They cut the rest of the thought out. The rest is fine though.”)
Washington is for a best actor Oscar at this Sunday’s Academy Awards for his role in “Flight.”
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Class. People like Denzel, Angela Bassett, Tina Turner and a few other stars whose names escape me right now will always be interesting and intriguing because they aren’t constantly thrusting themselves out into the public arena. Dealing in drama and using that drama to try to stay relevant, which is why I am always happy to see them and hear what they have to say on the rare occasions when they do decide to grant interviews. No matter how much money you make, you just can’t buy class.
This is why Denzel continues to be a class act!
Its always best to eliminate white people from you’re inner circle. Less problems. We just are not in the same page, never will be. For that matter..don’t have to many black friends too…pick and choose wisely.
Wish I could eliminate black folks from my circle too; the globe. Like Sarah said, “less problems”, I totally agree, the crime rate would drop dramatically and the government would have much more fiscal security. This is based on the fact that it currently spends over 400 billion dollars per year proping up blacks with welfare and obama phones (41% of welfare recipients black). But wait you say, there are whites are on welfare too, right? Why yes, you are correct; however, with the white population at 196,817,552 and the black population at 37,685,848 (2010 census), it is clear blacks are receiving more of these benefits as a percentage of population, in fact, slightly over 6 times more. By comparison, there are now 13,000,000 more Hispanics than blacks in the U.S., but they receive only 16% of these benefits.
The break down is as such:
Children Under 18 Living in Poverty, 2010
Race Number Percentage of Race
White only, non-Hispanic 5,002,000 (12.4%)
Black 4,817,000 (38.2%)
Hispanic 6,110,000 (35.0%)
SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010, Report P60, n. 238, Table B-2, pp. 68-73.
So oddly enough if you look at the statistical data, it becomes clear that there are more poor white and hispanic families in the US than blacks, yet blacks consume a disproportionately large amount of the welfare budget. I know it’s not your fault its racist and sheet, other races are keeping you down.
I wonder what we could do with all the money this country would save? more schools, better national defense budget. Hell think of how much money we would save on law enforcement as we could probably eliminate half the police and that money could then be put towards education, public works etc.
Well Shannon and Sarah I wish people like you would not only leave this country, but can rid you all from the earth as well. l love it when the blacks you speak of makes your lives miserable, there’s nothing holding you all back from hauling azz from this place.
The crime rate would drop dramatically you say, I doubt it what the non-blacks with a violet nature when they don’t get their way. Having more schools with the money you save because there aren’t any blacks around, I doubt that too, would the schools be any safer with all these sick white males who loves to strap themselves with assault weapons and shoot innocent people?
Complain all you want to about welfare and who receives it, it’s not going anywhere and neither are black people, but you Shannon are free to leave. I think this country is pretty much reaping what it has sowed. Get off this black website STFU and go to work so Hakeem’s mother can receive your tax dollars and purchase him a brand new pair of Jordon…. lololololoolol
“Complain all you want to about welfare and who receives it, it’s not going anywhere and neither are black people, but you Shannon are free to leave. I think this country is pretty much reaping what it has sowed. Get off this black website STFU and go to work so Hakeem’s mother can receive your tax dollars and purchase him a brand new pair of Jordon…. lololololoolol”
I agree we are reaping what we sowed, we imported you. Hind sight is certainly 20/20 and I think by now it has become extraordinarily clear that the Spaniards and Whites that brought you here should have most certainly dumped the cargo mid-trip.
However, this is not unlike other non-native animals that have unfortunately been introduced into and then summarily destroyed the environment of its non native land. The snakes of the Everglades or Guam; a number of rodents, to include the European [black or tree] rat, Asiatic [Norway or brown] rat, the house mouse, and European rabbit. All of which have caused serious damage in the US and losses adding up to more than $138 billion per year. Add in the $400 billion for welfare, the annual payments to minority based educational programs designed to somehow get blacks on par with the rest of the races such as the “Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs/Gear Up” ($200 million), “Reading Excellence Program” ($260 million), “Aid for Institutional Development, Titles III and V” ($300 million), and “TRIO Programs” ($645 million). Also Howard University alone received $219 million from the DOE, notwithstanding the fact that Howard is a segregated, private institution, and arguably the most racist, anti-Semitic university in America. But the undisputed king of DOE reparations transfer programs was “Title I Grants for Schools Serving At-Risk Children,” which received a cool $8 billion.
Then we have the private sectors contribution to the non-indigenous negro species in the United States. In 1994, Denny’s restaurants paid out $46 million to black litigants in a case that began when black Secret Service agents claimed they had not been seated quickly enough by employees in a Denny’s. In 1996, Texaco Oil paid out $176 million to, and promoted black employees who put forth baseless claims of racial discrimination, based on the race-baiting of Jesse Jackson alone. And in 2000, Jesse Jackson repeated his Texaco Trick, in gaining a $192.5 million payoff from Coca-Cola and a large degree of control over the company, based again on unsupported claims of racial discrimination. But Jackson hit the jackpot, when he used the pretext of charging that an innocuous ad for Toyota automobiles was “racist,” as an excuse to extort $7.8 billion out of Toyota Motor Corp. In all of the above cases, the tab was paid by predominantly white, American consumers, and white workers were fired to cut costs. Were a white man to engineer such extortion schemes, he would be prosecuted by state authorities for extortion, and by federal prosecutors pursuant to RICO laws.
All in all how much have blacks cost the US? The possibilities boggle the mind. I’m guessing it’s been five trillion to ten trillion dollars, or approximately $150,000 to approximately $300,000 per black resident of the United States.
I think the brother is relevant because he places his family, wife and football career of this son first. I don’t blame him. When I look at high black thespians in Hollyweird I think of Will Smith, Morgan Freeman and Jamie Foxx. Look at the mess surrounding them and their careers:
*Will & Jada possible swingers and Will possibly on the down-low and possibly being affiliated with Scientology (we all know that religion is a CULT!!!
* Brother Morgan screwing his wife’s daughter or cousin – allegedly ( if true – this is really disturbing)
* Jamie Foxx – was once kissing Tom Cruise’s azz when they did a movie together I thought he was eating puppy chow, and now he’s sweating Quinton Tarantino big time! Nothing wrong with supporting your co-star, but bro man was acting Uncle Tom-ish!!!
Ving Rhames – he wanted to give his emmy to Jack Lemon – really weird and desperate if you ask me (maybe I am being a hater here) but dang – be yourself and stay true!
Timmdogg, I remember that and Jack didn’t know who/what the hell a “Ving” was!!!
Denzel is a class act but he has been caught up in drama too but I admire him because he knew when to pull back and stay true to himself as well as his family.
Idon’t necessarily agree with the accolades given to Denzel Washington. He implies he is the family man when in fact,he had an affair while married. Secondly, at the Academy Awards years ago when he was up for an award – while being interviewed,he completely ignored his wife vs. bringing her in the picture and I thought that was sooooooooooooo disrespectful. Also, why in the majority of his movies is there a need to have a non-Black love interest? I also notice that he is not a regular on the NAACP Image Awards – he’s able to attend the White award shows but unable to attend the NAACP awards show each year. These are the things I notice about Denzel Washington.
Denzel have attended plenty of NAACP Image awards, I still have those VHS tapes and with one of the image awards he won he said that award meant more to him than his Oscar award. Also Denzel Washington has presented and even hosted the NAACP Image awards with Whitney Houston a few years ago…… I’m just sayin……
I haven’t seen all the NAACP Award shows over the years, so I will take your word for Denzel attending previous shows. I know on the shows that I saw in the last few years, Denzel did not attend.
This doesn’t surprise me, because Denzel Washington is from New York. We don’t do PHONY.