Quotes from Denzel Washington movies and TV shows - page 2 of 5

Doug Carlin: I'll speak slow, so those of you with Ph.D.'s in the room can understand.

Doug Carlin: For all of my career, I've been trying to catch people after they do something horrible. For once in my life, I'd like to catch somebody before they do something horrible, all right? Can you understand that?

Doug Carlin: This is not surveillance. This is the actual past.
Agent Pryzwarra: Yes.

Denny: You know you don't have to do this.
Doug Carlin: What if I already have?

Harbor Cop: Put your hands in the air and step out of the vehicle now.
Doug Carlin: We get out now, everybody dies.
Harbor Cop: You have until the count of three.
Doug Carlin: Hit it.

Agent Pryzwarra: It's not your fault she dies.
Doug Carlin: Well, that's one theory.

Doug Carlin: He's gonna kill her. In twelve hours, he's gonna kill her.
Jack McCready: He killed her four days ago! You were at the funeral, what's wrong with you?

Doug Carlin: Is she alive or is she dead?

Easy Rawlins: A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?

Robert McCall: There are two kinds of pain in this world. The pain that hurts, the pain that alters. Today, you get to choose.

Robert McCall: I'm your father. You mama forgot to tell you about me.

Robert McCall: Man ain't spelled g-u-n, son. You got a choice. You got talent. You got a chance, and I don't want to hear 'bout your environment, what your momma didn't give you and the white man won't give you, no shot, you got a chance. Use it while you're still alive. You don't know what death is. You have no idea what death is. Make a decision.

Robert McCall: Got to be who you are in this world, no matter what.

Robert McCall: Progress, not perfection.

John Hobbes: There are moments which mark your life. Moments when you realise nothing will ever be the same and time is divided into two parts, before this, and after this... Sometimes you can feel such a moment coming. That's the test, or so I tell myself. I tell myself that at times like that, strong people keep moving forward anyway, no matter what they're going to find.

John Hobbes: I don't know. I can't seem to get my mind around it. I got a bad feeling about this.
Jonesy: Yeah, me too. Somebody is playing with my dick, and it ain't me.

John Hobbes: Can I ask you a personal question?
Gretta Milano: Everything is personal, if you're a person.

John Hobbes: Why are we here? Us, humans? I mean there's six billion of us, we're like ants, I mean do we care what ants do, from a moral standpoint?
Jonesy: No. Maybe if you figure it out, you die, you know from a stroke or a heart attack, you just die, sort of like a promotion.

John Hobbes: Sometimes, I think the basic job that human beings have is just to figure out what the hell is going on.

Gretta Milano: I believe more is hidden than is seen.
John Hobbes: Well I believe what I see, but I'm still trying to get my mind around what I just saw.