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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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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.
Laurence Fishburne
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If you asked someone who was a Maori about how they felt about how they were treated in Australia or New Zealand, you'll get an answer. They'll have something to tell you. And you might not like what you hear.
Laurence Fishburne -
It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.
Laurence Fishburne -
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.
Laurence Fishburne -
Playing solo with an audience for an hour and 30 minutes without a break means I have to, as the jazz cats say, get into the shed and work on my chops.
Laurence Fishburne -
I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.
Laurence Fishburne -
I actually had the opportunity to stand at the lectern in the Supreme Court and face the justices, which was really a powerful thing for me.
Laurence Fishburne
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I return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love it.
Laurence Fishburne -
As a movie star, you get good tables at restaurants.
Laurence Fishburne -
Jesse Eisenberg, this little nebbishy guy, as Lex Luthor? For me, that's a genius move.
Laurence Fishburne -
When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do.
Laurence Fishburne