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" I really don't know that I'm iconic. I don't even know that people think I'm cool. "
Laurence Fishburne
Even
People
Cool
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" I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'. "
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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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" It's my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well. "
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" If you asked someone who was a Maori about how they felt about how they were treated in Australia or New Zealand, you'll get an answer. They'll have something to tell you. And you might not like what you hear. "
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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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" You can't be bad when you're working with a kid. They have the instincts that all great actors have. "
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" 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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" I can't imagine not coming back to the theater. It's where I started. "
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" Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist' means a lot to me. "
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" I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor. "
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" 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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" Playing solo with an audience for an hour and 30 minutes without a break means I have to, as the jazz cats say, get into the shed and work on my chops. "
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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?' "
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People
Going
" 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. "
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You
Franchise
Looking
" 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
" 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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System
" I believe in my children. I believe in human beings. I believe in the goodness that is in human beings. I believe in many, many things that I cannot prove. I believe that there's the world of the seen and the world of the unseen. "
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Seen
Goodness
World
" Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor. "
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Actor
Doing
" 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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You
" I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick. "
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Sick
Getting
" I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet. "
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" 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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" As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground. "
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" Jesse Eisenberg, this little nebbishy guy, as Lex Luthor? For me, that's a genius move. "
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" When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life. "
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