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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. "

Laurence Fishburne

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" 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. "

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

Laurence Fishburne

Vocation

Actor

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

" I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life. "

" 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.' "

" I can't imagine not coming back to the theater. It's where I started. "

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

Laurence Fishburne

Still

Some

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The 50s are the age of elegance. That's kind of my intention when I get dressed: casual elegance. "

" 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. "

Laurence Fishburne

Need

Parent

" 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. "

Laurence Fishburne

Audience

Way

" I'm not dyeing my hair and trying to pretend I'm 40. That's not going to work for me. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood. "

" Most of us are afraid of our success, that we will actually be great. "

" Obviously, after 'The Matrix,' it was a case of, 'OK, I did that. What's next?' I mean, it's always like that, but more so this time. How do I change it up? How do I keep it interesting for myself? "

" I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor. "

" 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. "

" Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist' means a lot to me. "

Laurence Fishburne

Means

Lot

" Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone. "

" I had two times in my life where I wanted to give up everything I worked for, but God gave me a job. "

" My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, 'Bronzeville,' in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we're developing into a television show. It deals with a very tight-knit African-American community in Chicago in 1947 and people who run a numbers wheel. "