Laurence Fishburne Quotes
I don't believe in acting teachers for me, so it's God's joke that he gave me a best friend who's an acting teacher.
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Talent is very hot.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.
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I really enjoy being an actor!
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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Don't look too far ahead or you'll get overwhelmed. Just do the next apparent thing. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. You'll get through this. And when you do, you'll feel great!
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A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.
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The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent - they believe in individual liberty. Commendable as they are, and despite their reliability as allies in civil liberties struggles, you may notice that Libertarians sometimes prove that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, and that there is a difference between logic and wisdom.
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I don't believe in acting teachers for me, so it's God's joke that he gave me a best friend who's an acting teacher.
