Laurence Fishburne Quotes
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Most of us are afraid of our success, that we will actually be great.
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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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Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.
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On a motorcycle, you can't really think about more than where you are. There's a freedom that comes with that - from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff.
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We are our children's first teachers.
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I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.
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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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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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I learned tolerance at a very early age.
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I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God.
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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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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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It's nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas.
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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 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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There's great theatre in New York City, but no New York City in theatre.
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I was a child actor but not a child star.
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I've been around long enough now and have learned to be flexible enough to know that every movie isn't going to be 'Apocalypse Now,' and every director doesn't have to be Stanley Kubrick.
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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.
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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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Some people think of me as an actor and some as a movie star, so I sort of guess that makes me both. I love making movies, and I love playing on the stage.
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I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.
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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 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.