John David Washington

Actor

72 Quotes

I went to bar mitzvahs as a kid. I had a lot of classmates who are Jewish.

Make America great - to me... it's inclusion. Everybody in America, let's do it together, no matter what color you are. You're American. Let's figure it out.

My father taught me how to hunt.

I'm from the old school; hard work pays off.

This is a privilege, what we get to do. To be able to tell stories. It's a luxury. So I have a business-like approach to it, the same way I had with football.

Football is the ultimate team sport. You're dependent on 10 other people on the field to have success on a particular play to get to the common goal, which is the win. On a set, we need everybody doing their job and pulling their weight.

There's men and women out there protecting and serving, doing it the right way, that aren't talked about.

Football players are creative when they're in the moment.

Movies are magical. It transcends a lot of hate or human faults in real life because of the fantasy of it all.

I wanna work with filmmakers that love, are enthusiastic about their process - about the process - about their process and the environment of inclusion and collaboration. I want the people to be able to trust me, and I wanna be able to trust them.

Ask me trivia on 'Sex and the City,' and I will know it. I rewatch it every year. Samantha? Charlotte? Those are my girls.

Whenever you're feeling moments of discomfort, that means true change is happening for you.

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