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" I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick. "
Laurence Fishburne
Man
Sick
Getting
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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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" There's a lot of stuff that's not good that's touted as being good. "
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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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" Shooting a film with seven to eight actors together is complicated sometimes because you have to cover everybody. "
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" There's great theatre in New York City, but no New York City in theatre. "
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New
Great
" It's nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas. "
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" The 50s are the age of elegance. That's kind of my intention when I get dressed: casual elegance. "
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Elegance
Dressed
" 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. "
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California
Man
" In order to be the best version of yourself, you have to dedicate time, effort, and support to other people who need it. "
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Effort
Support
" 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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Tone
Doing
Way
" I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet. "
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Talk
Seen
Grind
" 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 Can
Feel
Think
" 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. "
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Think
Stage
People
" We don't really see a lot of war movies about the people that are left behind, dealing with the deaths of those who serve and the sacrifices they make. "
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Movies
War
See
" '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. "
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Play
Kind
Long
" My production company, what we are trying to do is I'm trying to create content that speaks to me, and it's not one color. It's not one size fits all. "
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Me
Size
Color
" 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. "
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Think
People
Funny
" We are our children's first teachers. "
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Children
First
Our
" As a movie star, you get good tables at restaurants. "
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Get
Tables
Star
" 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. "
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Time
You
Think
" Anytime we're talking about Thurgood Marshall, that's a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look at the history, and recognize what his contributions were. "
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Opportunity
Think
Good
" All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can. "
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Trying
Different
Things
" 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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People
Try
Time
" It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief. "
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Difficult
Film
Giving
" 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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Face
Stand
Opportunity
" Most of us are afraid of our success, that we will actually be great. "
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Will
Afraid
Great
" A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me. "
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Smart
Black
Guy
" I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself. "
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Work
Humility
" I have a relationship with the southern hemisphere that's a really good one. I love it there. "
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Love
Good
Relationship
" 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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Tired
Me
Woman