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" Having 50 to 60 years on the planet should give you a sense of how to master the way you look and live your life. "
Laurence Fishburne
Live
Life
Look
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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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" On a motorcycle, you can't really think about more than where you are. There's a freedom that comes with that - from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff. "
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" 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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" 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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" Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone. "
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" Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life. "
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" Do mainstream crowds want to watch a movie about good things happening in black neighborhoods? Do black audiences want to see a little girl doing something in a white world? "
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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 not dyeing my hair and trying to pretend I'm 40. That's not going to work for me. "
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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 try to meditate. "
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" Doing 'CSI: N.Y.' is not 'CSI.' Doing 'CSI: Miami' is not 'CSI: N.Y.,' it's 'CSI: Miami.' It has a very, very specific tone. It has a very specific look. It has a specific way in which they tell their stories that's different from 'CSI: N.Y.' and 'CSI.' "
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Doing
Way
" 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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People
" 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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Feel
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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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Actor
System
" I always wanted to play a cowboy. I just didn't get to do it the way I thought I would. "
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Thought
Cowboy
" I was a child actor but not a child star. "
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Child Actor
Child
" I don't want to be 45 years old and have been a hot actor when I was 33 and have people going, 'Whatever happened to Fishburne?' "
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People
Going
" My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do. "
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Vocation
Actor
" I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine. "
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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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Stand
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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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Care
" 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. "
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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 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. "
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God
" 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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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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