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As of , has appeared in only two Oscar Best Picture nominees: A Soldier's Story and Fences , the fewest among male actors with at least four acting Oscar nominations. Actors were Denzel Washington n and Terry Alexander. The film was never released. Universal Pictures approached him for the role of Mr. Nobody in Furious 7 , but he turned down the role. So Kurt Russell was cast instead. He kissed his finger and put the hand in the glass to send the kiss in two movies Crimson Tide and Hurricane He has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Malcolm X In Acting's like someone asking you for years to write the characters, but they write the book.

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question. The weirdest part of it, or even the saddest part, is that you start to see people die. You go "Man! He wasn't even that old. He was When I was 20, 58 was old. It ain't now. Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered.

That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery , who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around. People say, "Congratulations, you finally got the Oscar", and I have to correct them: "Actually, it's my second one. I won for Glory in There's a couple I wish I hadn't done. I won't say which ones, but there are a couple of mistakes there. I don't know if I ate bad food or if it was too much tension, but I got sick.

There was a huge traffic jam, and I remember saying "Look, it took me all this time to get here - I'm showing up in a limousine and I don't care how late I am.

Everyone was inside because the show had already started. I root for the Yankees. I remain thankful for the gifts that I've been given and I try to use them in a good way, in a positive way.

For the movie Glory , before going out to shoot the whipping scene, I'm backstage in a room, and I'm thinking, how am I gonna do this scene? All I did - you know people ask me, how did you prepare? And I got on my knees and they were waiting for me, and I prayed. And then I prayed to all the spirits. I said, "Look fellas, ladies" and I'm talking about those who have been, and I said, "Look I don't know, I'm just rolling with you all.

Just whatever happens, I'm going. And I said are you with me? Come on! And I went out there and what hit me was, I'm in charge. Never put my head down. This isn't the first time this has happened to me, the character - and ,in fact, I had the guy build all the scars to put on my back - and I went out there with an attitude that I'm going to take this and not fold. But it hurt. And the tear was actually real.

You know, you just allow it and you're thankful for it. It's not technical. It's not science. It's spirit. I ain't putting no chains around my neck. I'm not in the mood right now, too edgy. It just wasn't for me. I'm not having it. I'm like, "Yeah, that's what happened then, but how about me cutting everybody's head off and end the movie there?

You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at. It's like I have to do one film for financial reasons, as opposed to when I was single, or before we had all of these children. I find that I'm not as good at not working as I thought I would be. I get itchy. My wife also says I'm only good for about three weeks of downtime.

But I'm learning a decent pace now. I try to take four or five months off between jobs. I think, also, in a way the traveling helps. We're able to travel together and also be apart sometimes. Not everybody gets to live like that. Twenty years now. It's like you start to pat yourself on the back when you look around you and you see that very few people have 20 years into a marriage. There's fun creating that magic. Bringing something to life, whatever.

Putting together a character. The twists and the turns that people don't expect. So to sit around and talk about it before someone sees it is boring. I think there should be some mystery in it. Who wants to know everything about it? I think it ruins movies when you know everything about how the movie was made and put together.

If you explain, it's like showing you the trick before I show you the magic. Let me explain to you how it works. All right, now come see the show. It's supposed to be magic. And being an actor is about creating that magic. To specify, it is to say that I like not knowing. I like knowing when I get there. I know when it starts coming around and it raises the hair or it doesn't.

I was trained in the theater. So it was instilled in me as a young performer to take chances and not to worry about all that, because failure is a part of growth. If you're gonna fail, fail big and take chances. So I've done that, or I've tried to do that.

You want to go to different places, you want to find different ways to go about it. You may have your constants, but you're looking to go into new territories, new angles, new challenges. So that's how it is for me as an actor. I couldn't play the same guy eight times and I don't have to.

I think I've said all of my career, I'm not a celebrity. I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actor who is more popular right now. I don't even know what a movie star is. And one of the reasons why I keep on going back to make movies that don't have such huge budgets is that it's not as much pressure.

You feel like you can take more chances. I'm not a marketing whatever. My strength does not lie in marketing a product called "Denzel". That's not what I do. My strength lies in playing a part and hopefully entertaining and affecting people on some level.

Now I'm not being naive. I know that marketing comes into play when you're spending 50 or 60 million dollars of other people's money to make a film. You have to be involved in marketing that product.

But the publicity gets to be boring. How many times can I tell the same story? I understand the importance of doing publicity for a film, so I'm willing to do that, but I don't want to sit around talking about myself. That's not a great day for me. That's not my idea of fun. The acting coach Stanislavsky talks about cutting 90 percent. So you do research, research, research, then you drop it and listen when you're in the scene and know who you are.

You never know how it's gonna come around. That's why you go out there and find out. It's because you need the human beings that hook you into the character. Maybe I'm not as imaginative as the average actor. I need some kind of a hook sometimes. After Hurricane, I was like, "I don't feel like dealing with these people.

I'm just not going to go. So that night I didn't care -- and, of course, they go, "Here". It was bleak. It got chilly and windy. The wind was the biggest deal.

You'd have to wash the sand out of your nose and eyes. The world that the movie takes place in, the opportunity to do all this "Blade" kind of martial-arts stuff, working with the Hughes brothers -- it was an interesting combination of things. He was like, 'Dad, you've never done anything like this'. I just hadn't been asked before. They offered me the Brad Pitt part, but I was like, "This is so dark and evil.

We'll never know, will we? The film was touchy because people were murdered and a lot of people felt that Rubin did it. So you're opening old wounds. Malcolm X was more dangerous, but The Hurricane might have been more controversial. It's not like by the end of the movie he's leading a gay and lesbian parade'. If we'd done that, it would have let people like this character off the hook.

But at the end, he touches [ Tom Hanks ' character] -- and that's huge for him. He was barely eating at all, and I would put out, like, Almond Joys in his drawer to give him a hard time. I'd pretend to sneeze and all these Snickers would fall on the ground. I'm sure he laughed all the way up to the podium when he won the Oscar. I was like, "Okay, fellas, just tell me what to do. I spit on the ground. I had this attitude and this strength -- it all came out of this meditation.

It wasn't calculated. It was organic. That whip actually hurt, but I was like, "Don't let him win. I didn't start acting to be a movie star. I started in the theater and my desire was to get better at my craft.

It's still my desire. I don't consider myself a movie star, nor do I really have the desire to be one. I'm just an entertainer. An actor who works hard at his craft. Whatever labels people give me, that's not really me or part of my process.

Come and talk with me again on my 50th birthday and I may feel differently, but right now, I'm just taking the lesson from one of my old teachers who said, "Don't be afraid to fail big.

You can even get caught up in fighting it, pretending it doesn't exist. But it already alters who you are, just in the fact that you're trying to deny it. I just turned 40 and my wife and I had a quiet getaway. I didn't want a big party or anything. I just wanted to reflect on what I've done with the first 40 years and what I want to do now.

I think I'm just starting to figure out how to do it, you know, how to simplify things in life. Around my birthday, I was listening to this motivational speaker, Les Brown, who made this analogy about ghosts around his bed. Hayes distinguished himself as an advocate not only for his own organization, but for others as well.

National Bank. He was also a founding board member of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington. Even after his retirement, he continued to come into the office every day, mentoring and guiding new presidents of the organization and working closely with the staff to maintain a unified vision.

With his pioneering spirit, Hayes made a lasting impression on the arts culture in Washington D. Toggle navigation. Washington Performing Arts Gospel Choirs. Gospel Choirs. My Account. Manage Account Logout. Hayes and pianist Van Cliburn.