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" I'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed. "
Laurence Fishburne
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" 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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" There's a lot of stuff that's not good that's touted as being good. "
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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 really don't know that I'm iconic. I don't even know that people think I'm cool. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I had two times in my life where I wanted to give up everything I worked for, but God gave me a job. "
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" 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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" I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why you're there and all that stuff. It's good to know something. I like to know, but I've never been one of these, 'Just show me my stuff,' no, I like to know what the whole picture is so I can understand how I fit into it. "
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" Jesse Eisenberg, this little nebbishy guy, as Lex Luthor? For me, that's a genius move. "
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" It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity. "
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