Laurence Fishburne Quotes
You can't be bad when you're working with a kid. They have the instincts that all great actors have.
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I always played to win.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would be okay for me to go live on a farm outside the city so I could play.
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Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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Sushi is one of my favorite foods.
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'Wayne's World' is my all time favorite comedy. I used to watch it on VHS on repeat with my brother when I was ten years old.
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You can't be bad when you're working with a kid. They have the instincts that all great actors have.
