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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. "

Laurence Fishburne

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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.' "

" 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 of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point. "

" When I was ten, I did a play at the Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, Charles Fuller's first play. He went on to write 'A Soldier's Story,' among other things. I realized, 'Oh, I can be anything doing this.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Laurence Fishburne

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Lot

" 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. "

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

Laurence Fishburne

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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. "

" I try to meditate. "

Laurence Fishburne

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

" I learned tolerance at a very early age. "

" I work with my instincts. I don't have a process that I learned in an acting class whereby I break a script down or whereby I do a certain kind of research. "

" 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. "

" Jesse Eisenberg, this little nebbishy guy, as Lex Luthor? For me, that's a genius move. "

" 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. "

" You can't be bad when you're working with a kid. They have the instincts that all great actors have. "

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

" 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. "

" I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Laurence Fishburne

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Opportunity

" When I first read 'Boyz,' I cried. It could have been about some kids in Warsaw, Poland. I knew it was good, but I had no idea what it would do to me. "

Laurence Fishburne

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" I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat. "