Denzel Washington`s children aren`t impressed by his career
The Oscar-winning actor has four kids with wife Pauletta Pearson but he admits they aren`t particularly in awe of his success and have other people they look up to.
When he was described as a "legendary" actor, Denzel replied: "Am I? I`m legendary? So when I walk past mirrors I should stop and just look at myself and say, `You`re a legend?` You don`t hear about it until you do interviews and things. I`m not legendary in my house - I still put the trash out.
"One day my youngest son, I was talking to him and I said `I know there must be tremendous pressure on you - me being your father.` And he said, `No, the pressure is from my brothers and sisters.` Because his eldest brother is a professional football player, and then his eldest sister graduated from Yale, and so it was more sibling pressure. So I was like, `So I don`t mean anything?!` "
The `Safe House` star also insists the family lead a very normal life.
He told British TV show `Daybreak`: "They`re used to me, they`re used to their dad being an actor, that`s what I do. And we don`t lead a movie star kind of life - we don`t have a lot of handlers around the house and all that kind of stuff. A lot of mirrors though!"
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