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" I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor. "
Laurence Fishburne
Actor
Big
Good Actor
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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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" Projects don't need to be special for me to sign up, but I do need them to have something that speaks to me in some way. "
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" There's a bunch of plays that I never got to do because I was either too young or too old for the parts, like 'Slow Dance on the Killing Ground' and 'Dutchman.' For 'American Buffalo,' I was the wrong color. "
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" 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. "
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" We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit. "
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" We are our children's first teachers. "
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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'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed. "
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" I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God. "
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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 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" '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. "
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Kind
Long
" I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet. "
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Talk
Seen
Grind
" I believe in my children. I believe in human beings. I believe in the goodness that is in human beings. I believe in many, many things that I cannot prove. I believe that there's the world of the seen and the world of the unseen. "
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Seen
Goodness
World
" 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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Say
Women
" Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone. "
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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 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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" If you're playing a real person, then you want to do a certain amount of research, but that's only going to be so useful to you. Each role requires a different kind of approach to get ready. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor. "
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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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" 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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" Obviously, after 'The Matrix,' it was a case of, 'OK, I did that. What's next?' I mean, it's always like that, but more so this time. How do I change it up? How do I keep it interesting for myself? "
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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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