Laurence Fishburne Quotes
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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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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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Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.
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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 learned tolerance at a very early age.
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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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There's a lot of stuff that's not good that's touted as being good.
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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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My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I'd say: 'Leave me alone. Don't push so much.'
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We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.
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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 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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My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, 'Bronzeville,' in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we're developing into a television show. It deals with a very tight-knit African-American community in Chicago in 1947 and people who run a numbers wheel.
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I was a child actor but not a child star.
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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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You can't go looking for another one of those franchises. You only ever get one of those. You get 'Stars Wars'; you get 'Indiana Jones' or get 'The Matrix.' I've had my franchise.
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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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Projects don't need to be special for me to sign up, but I do need them to have something that speaks to me in some way.
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I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God.
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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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Having 50 to 60 years on the planet should give you a sense of how to master the way you look and live your life.
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I see that I have, as part of my stock in trade, a very regal personality and carriage. I see that I have a kind of strength, a kind of command, and a kind of power that one would associated with a monarch.
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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.