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" I had two times in my life where I wanted to give up everything I worked for, but God gave me a job. "
Laurence Fishburne
Everything
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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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" I have a relationship with the southern hemisphere that's a really good one. I love it 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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" Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity. "
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" A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me. "
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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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" When I think of Othello, I think of a poet-warrior. Let me say that again - a romantic warrior. And I think I have those qualities in common with him. "
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" If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish. "
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" 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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" Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist' means a lot to me. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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