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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

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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. "

" 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. "

" There's great theatre in New York City, but no New York City in theatre. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain. "

" 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 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. "

" I return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love it. "

" 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. "

" I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'. "

" I can't imagine not coming back to the theater. It's where I started. "

" I'm passionate about all the things I do, really. "

" 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. "

" I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor. "

" 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. "

" I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it. "

" 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. "

" Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself. "

" I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself. "

" 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? "