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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. "

Laurence Fishburne

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" I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Things have become considerably better for men of colour since I was born. But I'd say that we'll be really getting somewhere when things get better for women of colour. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

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

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" I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat. "

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

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

" Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" We are our children's first teachers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why you're there and all that stuff. It's good to know something. I like to know, but I've never been one of these, 'Just show me my stuff,' no, I like to know what the whole picture is so I can understand how I fit into it. "

" I think there's going to be many special episodes of 'Blackish.' "

" 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. "

" Projects don't need to be special for me to sign up, but I do need them to have something that speaks to me in some way. "

" I'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "