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" I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet. "
Laurence Fishburne
Talk
Seen
Grind
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" I'm passionate about all the things I do, really. "
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" I don't think Othello is a jealous man - he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person... The playwright uses the word 'jealousy' over and over and over again, but I don't think it has anything to do with being jealous. "
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Jealous
Jealousy
" 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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Try
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" 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
" My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do. "
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Vocation
Actor
" It's my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well. "
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Luck
Well
Soul
" 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
" I can't remember a picture that has expressed black attitudes and personal relationships as vividly as we've done in 'Cadence.' "
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Remember
Black
Relationships
" It's nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas. "
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Feedback
Nice
Get
" We are our children's first teachers. "
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Children
First
Our
" Most of us are afraid of our success, that we will actually be great. "
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Will
Afraid
Great
" Back in 1978, when I was still in high school, I went to see a Broadway show, 'Paul Robeson,' starring James Earl Jones. It was all about Robeson's journey as a human being, an artist, a champion of civil rights. Had I not seen the play, I might not have known who Robeson was. I was certainly never taught about him in school. "
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High School
Champion
Journey
" 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
" Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist' means a lot to me. "
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Means
Lot
Me
" Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life. "
Laurence Fishburne
Working
Informal
Life
" I love the opportunity to use my full range, and so playing in the comedy 'Black-ish' gives me the opportunity to show my lighter side, and playing in this beautiful, elegant horror story of 'Hannibal,' I get to use my darker and more cerebral side. It's really wonderful. "
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Story
Opportunity
Me
" I see that I have, as part of my stock in trade, a very regal personality and carriage. I see that I have a kind of strength, a kind of command, and a kind of power that one would associated with a monarch. "
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Strength
Power
Personality
" I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood. "
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Livelihood
Childhood
Much
" 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
" I carry a lot of feminine energy as well as masculine energy, and that's the hit that people are getting. That vulnerable thing is not what we assume with black males. You get it, and then they cease to become scary. They become human. You cease to have a bogeyman. "
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People
Energy
Black
" 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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Wonderful
Blessed
Care
" 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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Me
Need
Parent
" 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. "
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Colour
Say
Women
" I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick. "
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Man
Sick
Getting
" I return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love it. "
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Love
Return
Stage
" As a movie star, you get good tables at restaurants. "
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Get
Tables
Star
" 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
" 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
" 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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Myself
Work
Humility
" Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor. "
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Actor
Doing