Laurence Fishburne Quotes
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When I was ten, I did a play at the Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, Charles Fuller's first play. He went on to write 'A Soldier's Story,' among other things. I realized, 'Oh, I can be anything doing this.'
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Most of us are afraid of our success, that we will actually be great.
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Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.
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I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.
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It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.
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I work with my instincts. I don't have a process that I learned in an acting class whereby I break a script down or whereby I do a certain kind of research.
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People think my name is Morpheus. Many times, people will say to me, 'Morpheus!' and I will complete the sentence by saying, 'is not my name!'
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Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still.
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There's great theatre in New York City, but no New York City in theatre.
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I had two times in my life where I wanted to give up everything I worked for, but God gave me a job.
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I can't remember a picture that has expressed black attitudes and personal relationships as vividly as we've done in 'Cadence.'
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Things have become considerably better for men of colour since I was born. But I'd say that we'll be really getting somewhere when things get better for women of colour.
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I was a child actor but not a child star.
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Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.
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I learned tolerance at a very early age.
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I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.
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The commercial I did for Kia was hilarious and unexpected, so that, I think, is also another way of signaling to the audience that there's more to me than Morpheus.
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I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.
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If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish.
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'The Fugitive Kind,' 'Rope,' 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' - I watched all these as a way of reminding myself that you can do a movie based on a play. You can do a movie that stays in one place for a long stretch.
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We don't really see a lot of war movies about the people that are left behind, dealing with the deaths of those who serve and the sacrifices they make.
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It's nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas.
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My production company, what we are trying to do is I'm trying to create content that speaks to me, and it's not one color. It's not one size fits all.
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I always wanted to play a cowboy. I just didn't get to do it the way I thought I would.