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" We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit. "
Laurence Fishburne
Three
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Mind
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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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" Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I'd say: 'Leave me alone. Don't push so much.' "
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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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" I'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed. "
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" 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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" I can't imagine not coming back to the theater. It's where I started. "
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" I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor. "
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" Acting and philanthropy are braided together. I've tried to seek out things that speak not just specifically to the community that created me, but that speak in a way that's universal and all of humanity celebrates. "
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" As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Jesse Eisenberg, this little nebbishy guy, as Lex Luthor? For me, that's a genius move. "
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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 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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" It's a huge blessing to know you've done something that has affected people the way 'The Matrix' has. It's like, there's 'Star Wars,' and then there's 'The Matrix.' It's cool to be a part of that. "
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" I learned tolerance at a very early age. "
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" I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick. "
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" 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. "
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" I see that I have, as part of my stock in trade, a very regal personality and carriage. I see that I have a kind of strength, a kind of command, and a kind of power that one would associated with a monarch. "
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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. "
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" I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God. "
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" I don't necessarily go out and try to do something that's going to be just something that will please the audience. I'm not interested in doing something where I get the most people to come see the movie at the same time and they get the biggest explosion. I'm not interested in that. "
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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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