A Quote by Pearl Cleage
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
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I'd love to do a movie with Denzel Washington, or some action star such as Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg would be really cool, too.
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I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.
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People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.
Once, I wanted to be a movie star. I just had to wait until I turned into an actor and then things started to work out.
I had studied at the NYU School of the Arts under Lloyd Richards, who also worked with the Negro Ensemble Company.
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I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.
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