Denzel Whitaker Quotes

What's important is how you deal with fear. I face it head-on, but I'm not too proud to admit that I do get afraid sometimes.

The best advice I ever received was to not rush time. Things will present themselves when the time is right.

Somedays I think I'm a rebel in my own mind but most of the times I'm a low-key, follow the rules type of guy.

I listen to a lot of different music. I love hip-hop. I'm a big underground rap fan. I listen to the likes of J. Cole. Lately, I've also been getting into techno house music. And I've been on an Eighties retro kick, and I've even been experimenting with some rock.

I just want to be remembered as a great actor.

Directing for me is the ability to take the words from a page and share my vision with the world.

I love expression and really connecting with people. As actors, we like to tell stories because they can influence or even change people's lives. It's so cerebral, you never know who you can affect out there.

That's the beauty of life, the uncertainty that we experience, literally, as we go about our day-to-day activities. We're not certain of anything, so fear comes up very often. Fear comes naturally.

I've secretly always wanted to be an astronaut.

When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.

I would want to have Spider-Man's web slinging abilities. I always thought it'd be cool to swing around the city jumping off of buildings and free diving.

As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.

I've always been pretty patient so I usually don't mind waiting!

I avoid roles that might send me down a road where I might end up being typecast.

Life lends itself to fear.

The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else.

Fortunately, both my parents, especially my mom, have guided me, and been amazing at handling my career and my finances. They taught me not to buy what I don't need, when I'm not working that much.

It makes sense that anybody with religious beliefs would pray that the Lord would watch over them and protect them as their sleeping. We just want to send that little message out to the Lord, "Take care of us."

The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming.

As a practice exercise, I'd usually just wear blindfolds around the house to allow my other senses to take me wherever I would like to go.