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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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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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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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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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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I know not whether Laws be right,Or whether Laws be wrong;All that we know who lie in gaolIs that the wall is strong;And that each day is like a year,A year whose days are long.
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I rewatched 'The O.C.,' like, seven times!
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I ask my close friends to give me feedback.
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My son, there's nothing insignificant,Nothing! But yet in every earthly thingFirst and most principal is place and time.
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Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead, an inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those storms with hope and serenity.
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Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.
