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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. "
Laurence Fishburne
Kind
Olympics
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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 didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood. "
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" After 'Othello,' it was, like, 'I can stop acting. I have played one of the great characters in the English language. I feel I have played him well and honorably. I have nothing to prove anymore.' "
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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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" 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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" 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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" My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do. "
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" All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can. "
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" 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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" There's great theatre in New York City, but no New York City in theatre. "
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" 'Apocalypse Now' was my craziest experience ever. I was 14 years old, and I'd lied about my age to get the role. I haven't had another film top it. "
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" 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. "
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" Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself. "
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" It's nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" '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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