Laurence Fishburne Quotes
Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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I am a big music nerd.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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Only in a country free from the funnelling of primogeniture and the levelling of égalité could the fifth generation of a family still be receiving parcels of wealth from a fortune that had essentially been made in the 1830s.
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I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.
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Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.
