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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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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.
Laurence Fishburne
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As a man of colour, I've spent my life asking people to see me for who I am. With Obama in the White House, it feels like people have finally caught up to where I've been most of my life.
Laurence Fishburne -
I think there's going to be many special episodes of 'Blackish.'
Laurence Fishburne -
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.
Laurence Fishburne -
It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief.
Laurence Fishburne -
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.
Laurence Fishburne -
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.
Laurence Fishburne
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Anytime we're talking about Thurgood Marshall, that's a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look at the history, and recognize what his contributions were.
Laurence Fishburne -
I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet.
Laurence Fishburne -
I carry a lot of feminine energy as well as masculine energy, and that's the hit that people are getting. That vulnerable thing is not what we assume with black males. You get it, and then they cease to become scary. They become human. You cease to have a bogeyman.
Laurence Fishburne -
What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.
Laurence Fishburne -
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.
Laurence Fishburne -
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.
Laurence Fishburne
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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.
Laurence Fishburne -
I don't want to be 45 years old and have been a hot actor when I was 33 and have people going, 'Whatever happened to Fishburne?'
Laurence Fishburne -
It's my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well.
Laurence Fishburne -
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.'
Laurence Fishburne -
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.
Laurence Fishburne -
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.
Laurence Fishburne
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I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor.
Laurence Fishburne -
It's nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas.
Laurence Fishburne -
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.
Laurence Fishburne -
I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick.
Laurence Fishburne