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" Back in 1978, when I was still in high school, I went to see a Broadway show, 'Paul Robeson,' starring James Earl Jones. It was all about Robeson's journey as a human being, an artist, a champion of civil rights. Had I not seen the play, I might not have known who Robeson was. I was certainly never taught about him in school. "

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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. "

Laurence Fishburne

Speak

Together

Community

" 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. "

" 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.' "

Laurence Fishburne

Tired

Woman

" The 50s are the age of elegance. That's kind of my intention when I get dressed: casual elegance. "

" Shooting a film with seven to eight actors together is complicated sometimes because you have to cover everybody. "

" When I was ten, I did a play at the Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, Charles Fuller's first play. He went on to write 'A Soldier's Story,' among other things. I realized, 'Oh, I can be anything doing this.' "

" It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously. "

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

" 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. "

" I can't remember a picture that has expressed black attitudes and personal relationships as vividly as we've done in 'Cadence.' "

" It's nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas. "

" 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. "

Laurence Fishburne

Audience

Way

" I really don't know that I'm iconic. I don't even know that people think I'm cool. "

" I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick. "

" People think my name is Morpheus. Many times, people will say to me, 'Morpheus!' and I will complete the sentence by saying, 'is not my name!' "

" Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist' means a lot to me. "

Laurence Fishburne

Means

Lot

" 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. "

Laurence Fishburne

First

Good

" I have a relationship with the southern hemisphere that's a really good one. I love it there. "

" 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. "

" Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life. "

" You can't be bad when you're working with a kid. They have the instincts that all great actors have. "

" My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do. "

Laurence Fishburne

Vocation

Actor

" 'Apocalypse Now' was my craziest experience ever. I was 14 years old, and I'd lied about my age to get the role. I haven't had another film top it. "

" I have a man cave somewhere in California - a totally undisclosed location where manly things occur. There are motorcycles, there are secret doors and passageways. Women are welcome, but they must knock. "

" We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit. "

" 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. "

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

" Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. "

" 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. "

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