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" As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground. "
Laurence Fishburne
Training
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" I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it. "
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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 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 my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well. "
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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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" 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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" I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God. "
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" It's important for a lot of young black males to value swagger over intelligence. Swagger is important, but intelligence must come before the swagger. "
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" I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat. "
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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 can't imagine not coming back to the theater. It's where I started. "
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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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" 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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" 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'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed. "
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