Laurence Fishburne Quotes
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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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.
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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.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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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.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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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.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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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.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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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.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
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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.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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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.
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I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.
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An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.
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It's my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well.
