Valuetainment - ＂It's Lonely at the Top＂ - Denzel Washington's Warning About Success

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00:00:30.000 A clip from Denzel Washington in an interview.

00:00:33.180 He's at a university.

00:00:34.080 He's being asked a question.

00:00:35.600 I love his answer.

00:00:36.900 I think everybody in the world can learn from his answer here.

00:00:40.760 Go forward.

00:00:42.140 Equality now to see it all so under attack.

00:00:45.900 Under attack by?

00:00:47.740 Government forbidding it.

00:00:49.500 The hardest thing to do is look in the mirror.

00:00:52.180 The easiest thing to do is blame someone else.

00:00:55.180 And I'm not talking about anybody.

00:00:56.700 I'm talking about everybody.

00:00:58.280 it's so easy to go if i if we could just get them right if we could just fix her or just fix him

00:01:05.200 then we but we don't look in the mirror that's where it should start well what can i do better

00:01:12.220 well why don't you try being honest with yourself denzel or whatever your name is

00:01:17.080 ask yourself real questions and give yourself honest answers can you go to the part two there's

00:01:23.580 two of them the last day of your life doesn't matter what you've done you've helped is what

00:01:28.640 matters who you've lifted up you can't have more success than i've had and i'm here to tell you

00:01:33.880 doesn't mean a daggone thing it complicates things it's lonely at the top look at the

00:01:41.460 pyramid he explained trust me i'm been at the top it's a pyramid it's like a it's like this

00:01:47.980 right like a pyramid it's very slippery up there there's not a lot of room it's easy to slide down

00:01:56.260 and there's hardly anybody up there so be careful of what you ask for and don't measure it by what

00:02:05.000 the world tells you success is what a power great freaking point and i love that slippery at the top

00:02:11.400 you can't left the right not a lot of so you're getting up there is one thing staying up there's

00:02:16.500 second thing but also always trying to see if the other person can fix themselves it'll be so much

00:02:23.160 better it's like well what if the other guy can can fix himself what if the other guy can do

00:02:26.860 something about it no what if you and i can do something about it it's it's never been the most

00:02:31.020 exciting message when you give this when people come up to me and say that person did this this

00:02:35.920 person did this that person did this well what can you do to improve it you know i think a lot

00:02:40.740 of times like well democrats this and republicans this and you know business this and taxes this

00:02:45.220 and this state this and that person this and my mom this my dad this my wife my husband my cousin

00:02:49.400 what role do you play in this what role do you and i play what can we it's a it's a it's a such a

00:02:56.880 unpopular message that whenever you get this message you don't like that person

00:03:02.780 yeah whenever that person gives you this message you actually don't want to talk to that person

00:03:08.820 i remember one time i heard a person say that there's three different types of people that

00:03:13.340 you know people speak to there's those people you speak to that they're ahead of you there's

00:03:19.280 those people that speak to because ahead of you they give you wisdom and what's to come and they

00:03:23.160 can challenge you there's those people that you speak to that are at the same level as you because

00:03:27.460 it tells you're not the only person that's going through the challenging season and then there's

00:03:31.040 those people you speak to that are below you because it shows you that you can give value to

00:03:34.080 everybody sometimes people just want to hang out with people below them because it makes them feel

00:03:39.620 superior instead of making them feel

00:03:41.240 small. And the

00:03:43.560 moment you get to a certain level, you're like, I just want to talk

00:03:45.600 to the people at the same level as me or

00:03:47.480 below me. That was one of the threats I gave to my guys

00:03:49.560 when I sent a message out to them. People don't

00:03:51.560 want to hear the truth. People don't want to hear the

00:03:53.440 message about what you can do

00:03:55.460 to improve this situation. So, I saw

00:03:57.580 this message from Denzel. I'm like, man, the

00:03:59.480 world's got to hear what this guy's saying.

00:04:01.340 I wish Denzel would do more of stuff like this.

00:04:03.940 I wish Denzel would share

00:04:05.460 every time you see him

00:04:06.480 he, you know, in interviews, he drops gems.

00:04:09.980 He's very good.

00:04:10.840 One time a lady says, so who did you vote for?

00:04:12.600 Have you ever seen this interview when he was asked, who did you vote for?

00:04:14.840 You ever seen this?

00:04:15.960 Can you find this?

00:04:16.800 Have you ever seen this?

00:04:17.380 He was outside?

00:04:18.160 Yeah, he was outside.

00:04:18.980 He's like, he says, who did you vote for?

00:04:20.860 And he says, who did I vote for?

00:04:21.940 It's none of your business who I voted for.

00:04:24.180 You've never heard him say this?

00:04:25.200 Oh, yeah, I saw.

00:04:25.600 It's election time.

00:04:26.600 Just go on X if you want to find it.

00:04:29.240 Okay, when I sell my business, I want the best tax and investment advice.

00:04:33.320 I want to help my kids, and I want to give back to the community.

00:04:36.480 Ooh, then it's the vacation of a lifetime.

00:04:41.240 I wonder if my out-of-office has a forever setter.

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00:04:59.540 Yeah, none of your business who I voted for, go for it.

00:05:04.140 Oh, this is two minutes, so hopefully he'll get right into it.

00:05:07.940 Mr. Washington, you're here in D.C. during an interesting time with the transition in the White House.

00:05:14.700 Just wondering who you wound up supporting in the election and why.

00:05:18.760 Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead.

00:05:20.460 Fences.

00:05:23.420 How about this? I don't know if you saw it. There's a fake news story going around.

00:05:27.300 It got thousands of shares online. You saw that.

00:05:30.120 and I just thought you might want to clear it up

00:05:32.540 because people are confused.

00:05:34.760 There's a few words that start with F

00:05:36.400 and end with K.

00:05:39.040 That one ends with E.

00:05:40.980 But it starts with F.

00:05:42.260 Yeah, but it's too vague.

00:05:43.200 You've got to be specific right now.

00:05:45.780 F, K, and E.

00:05:48.180 What was the question?

00:05:50.380 Well, that was the question.

00:05:52.240 Who you wound up supporting in the election,

00:05:55.260 presidential election.

00:05:56.120 None of your business.

00:05:58.020 None of my business?

00:05:58.880 None of your business.

00:05:59.400 Well, I'm only asking because the story was online, but that's okay.

00:06:02.700 Let me ask you this.

00:06:03.720 What issue do you hope President-elect Trump tackles?

00:06:07.280 What's number one in your mind with the new administration?

00:06:11.840 I don't know.

00:06:12.320 You know, I'd have to be more informed to just say off the top of my head the number one issue.

00:06:15.880 What a great answer.

00:06:17.200 I don't know.

00:06:18.140 Education, jobs, health.

00:06:20.880 I mean, there's so many.

00:06:22.120 Yeah.

00:06:22.280 I want to just ask you, though, about the issue of race relations, because the film touches upon that.

00:06:29.060 Right now, under President Obama, over the last eight years, in your mind,

00:06:33.080 have race relations improved under his leadership?

00:06:37.540 You know, race relationships have to do with race relationships. 0.79

00:06:41.600 You're white or whatever you are.

00:06:43.480 I'm black or whatever I am. 0.90

00:06:44.620 We're standing here talking now.

00:06:46.160 That's how we get things done.

00:06:47.900 You can't legislate love.

00:06:49.760 The president of the United States can't legislate us to like each other.

00:06:53.320 Let me tell you.

00:06:54.940 So every once in a while, when the kids have a lot of homework,

00:06:58.200 and everybody's busy you know what i can there's a few movies i can watch back to back to back

00:07:04.760 movie ends i can put it again you know what's one of them man on fire man on fire

00:07:08.680 and and you know in in a in a different lifetime uh denzel was going to be a pastor

00:07:14.240 really oh yeah denzel man on fire i can watch oh and in that he's a he's conflicted with god

00:07:21.280 and his life and with us for living and killing people and all this other stuff dude

00:07:24.680 I don't know

00:07:27.520 I wish this guy would talk more

00:07:30.480 and not about politics

00:07:32.380 about life

00:07:33.460 forget about politics who you voted for

00:07:35.940 I want to know how you think

00:07:37.320 he's one of those guys

00:07:40.400 he's one of these guys

00:07:41.340 you know what these guys are

00:07:42.640 these are the guys that he can do this

00:07:45.060 he can bring these guys and say

00:07:47.300 knock it off already

00:07:48.540 he's one of those guys

00:07:49.580 you don't have a lot of guys like this

00:07:52.520 you know very uh um and he said he says trust me i've been to the top what is he saying he's not

00:08:00.500 right now he's not right now and you know how hard to to say he was at the top he was the guy

00:08:05.580 of course yeah forever and then ricochet all the all the movement and i love that you brought god

00:08:10.640 into it because you know about the people that you want to hear and the friends that you don't

00:08:14.320 want to hear the advice and you don't want to hear those people you know who was that person

00:08:17.520 jesus christ at the end of the day but he wasn't like a nice guy he wasn't walking around patting

00:08:21.960 everybody in the back he would tell you he would call everybody out on everything and a lot of

00:08:27.120 people didn't want to be around him that that was that friend that we have that's always like hey

00:08:31.700 listen that they check you they're like hey man you're not like think about it if you're getting

00:08:35.060 big if you're gaining weight you don't want to be around the person that's always like yo dude

00:08:38.620 i've been i've been watching you and you know i mean are you trying to get healthy are you trying

00:08:42.500 to if you're not ready pat to make a decision that's the last person you want to do you want

00:08:47.440 to be away from that person as much as you can and so i think it's i think it's very important

00:08:52.160 to actually want to be around that person to hold your foot to the fire all the time like dude how

00:08:56.520 are you doing not always bashing you but how are you doing how's your family that thing that you

00:09:00.680 were talking to me about are you okay are you doing this are you trying to make changes you

00:09:04.700 need that though well i just want to go back to what he said at the beginning and why i thought

00:09:08.320 it was so important i think the reason that you wanted to show this is because it starts with you

00:09:11.960 at the end of the day i mean he gave the shout out to uh there's your shout out shout out to

00:09:17.060 the man in the mirror Michael Jackson every day that's the only person you see you look in the

00:09:21.020 mirror that's what you're going to see and he talked about self-reflection and self-improvement

00:09:25.340 and self-esteem and self-reliance and personal finance and everything that you can do on your

00:09:31.580 own you know the way I look at it is the world is changing so fast what can you do what can you

00:09:36.660 control what are the things that matter to you that you can actually do to manifest what you

00:09:42.540 want in your life and i love what his last is what he said about you can't legislate love you're

00:09:48.340 gonna get along with the people you're gonna get along with in your life and you're gonna make

00:09:51.600 those decisions so uh respect to denzel that sounds pretty conservative to me denzel but i

00:09:58.080 don't want to put words in your mouth doesn't nutty my business you know yeah i love i love

00:10:02.460 i love this guy's philosophy and the way he is personality he'd be the kind of guy i would want

00:10:07.700 to have a three-hour dinner with no cameras on no phones nothing just to talk to him not even a

00:10:12.140 podcast somebody you want to just talk to he's the guy did i tell you just really did i tell you

00:10:15.620 the story about about denzel and his son my friend damon wayne's jr was at a movie like sitting in

00:10:21.300 the front uh and he went with denzel's son and apparently the son wasn't supposed to go

00:10:25.960 everybody's in this theater the movie hasn't started yet and denzel watches and walks in

00:10:30.740 and goes you get the hell out of here and damon's sitting there and he's like could you imagine

00:10:34.980 you're in the theater and denzel washington walks in points at someone and goes get the

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Valuetainment - October 08, 2026

＂It's Lonely at the Top＂ - Denzel Washington's Warning About Success

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