Laurence Fishburne Quotes
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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 believe in acting teachers for me, so it's God's joke that he gave me a best friend who's an acting teacher.
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I was in a movie with Marlon Brando. Now, I didn't have any scenes with Marlon Brando, but I had scenes with Martin Sheen and was around Dennis Hopper, who was a child actor in the studio system and was enamored of James Dean, as was Martin, and they were all sort of disciples of Brando.
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You can't be bad when you're working with a kid. They have the instincts that all great actors have.
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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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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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I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet.
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I have taken care of my gift, and because I've taken care of my gift, I feel like I've been continually and constantly blessed to get to do wonderful things.
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I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why you're there and all that stuff. It's good to know something. I like to know, but I've never been one of these, 'Just show me my stuff,' no, I like to know what the whole picture is so I can understand how I fit into it.
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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 ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick.
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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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After 'Othello,' it was, like, 'I can stop acting. I have played one of the great characters in the English language. I feel I have played him well and honorably. I have nothing to prove anymore.'
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I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.
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I don't think Othello is a jealous man - he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person... The playwright uses the word 'jealousy' over and over and over again, but I don't think it has anything to do with being jealous.
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When I think of Othello, I think of a poet-warrior. Let me say that again - a romantic warrior. And I think I have those qualities in common with him.
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It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief.
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I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood.
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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 love the opportunity to use my full range, and so playing in the comedy 'Black-ish' gives me the opportunity to show my lighter side, and playing in this beautiful, elegant horror story of 'Hannibal,' I get to use my darker and more cerebral side. It's really wonderful.
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I think there's going to be many special episodes of 'Blackish.'
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It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.
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I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.