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" 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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" I work with my instincts. I don't have a process that I learned in an acting class whereby I break a script down or whereby I do a certain kind of research. "

Laurence Fishburne

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Acting

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" 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?' "

" As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground. "

" 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. "

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

" As a movie star, you get good tables at restaurants. "

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

" I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet. "

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

" My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, 'Bronzeville,' in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we're developing into a television show. It deals with a very tight-knit African-American community in Chicago in 1947 and people who run a numbers wheel. "

" I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting. "

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

Laurence Fishburne

Means

Lot

" 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.' "

" All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can. "

" I was a child actor but not a child star. "

" I've been around long enough now and have learned to be flexible enough to know that every movie isn't going to be 'Apocalypse Now,' and every director doesn't have to be Stanley Kubrick. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not dyeing my hair and trying to pretend I'm 40. That's not going to work for me. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

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

" It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief. "

" It's my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well. "