Laurence Fishburne Quotes

It's my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well.

Laurence Fishburne

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• My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Power
  • Husband
  • Wedding

• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Fake
  • Talking

• I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Play
  • Exciting
  • Broadway

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Help
  • Actors
  • Director

• I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Night

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Different
  • School

• I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Sometimes

• Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Life
  • Star

• You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • Job
  • Learn

• Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Politics
  • Vote

• I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Real
  • Think

• People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Work
  • Want

• If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Write
  • Writers
  • Influenced

• If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

  

  Sam Farr
  • Right
  • Now
  • Exist

• Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

  

  Naomi Weisstein
  • World
  • Women
  • True

• In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Girl
  • Horse
  • Kiss

• It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Black
  • Question
  • Dumb

• I'll never try to win an award. I'm out there just playing for my team.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Team

• My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

  

  Kim Elizabeth
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Light

• I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of the culture, and it's the name of the identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Thinking
  • Soul
  • Culture

• It's my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Soul
  • Luck