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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.' "
Laurence Fishburne
Remember
Black
Relationships
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" I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself. "
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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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" Do mainstream crowds want to watch a movie about good things happening in black neighborhoods? Do black audiences want to see a little girl doing something in a white world? "
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" John Wick is not a guy that asks for help, so when he goes to somebody for help, whoever that is, you know he's a serious cat. "
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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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" 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 return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love 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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" 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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" When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do. "
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" We are our children's first teachers. "
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" When I first read 'Boyz,' I cried. It could have been about some kids in Warsaw, Poland. I knew it was good, but I had no idea what it would do to me. "
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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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" In order to be the best version of yourself, you have to dedicate time, effort, and support to other people who need it. "
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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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" Shooting a film with seven to eight actors together is complicated sometimes because you have to cover everybody. "
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" I try to meditate. "
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" Hiding a talent is not exclusive to any one particular group of people: young, old, black, white, Latin. It doesn't matter. It's universal. The idea that you have a gift or talent is always kind of threatening. "
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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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" 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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Great
" 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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" 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. "
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" I really don't know that I'm iconic. I don't even know that people think I'm cool. "
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" We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit. "
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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. "
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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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" 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. "
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Purpose
" 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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" Jesse Eisenberg, this little nebbishy guy, as Lex Luthor? For me, that's a genius move. "
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