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" I'm not dyeing my hair and trying to pretend I'm 40. That's not going to work for me. "
Laurence Fishburne
Pretend
Trying
Work
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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 return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love it. "
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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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" 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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Doing
Way
" I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit. "
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" As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground. "
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Ground
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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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" People think my name is Morpheus. Many times, people will say to me, 'Morpheus!' and I will complete the sentence by saying, 'is not my name!' "
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Name
Think
Saying
" In order to be the best version of yourself, you have to dedicate time, effort, and support to other people who need it. "
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Effort
Support
" 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? "
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Interesting
Mean
" 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. "
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Slow
Old
Dance
" I think there's going to be many special episodes of 'Blackish.' "
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Going
Think
Special
" Shooting a film with seven to eight actors together is complicated sometimes because you have to cover everybody. "
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Together
Complicated
Sometimes
" As a movie star, you get good tables at restaurants. "
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Get
Tables
Star
" I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is. "
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Think
Become
Culture
" When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do. "
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Recognized
Adulthood
" There's a lot of stuff that's not good that's touted as being good. "
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Lot
Good
Being
" Do mainstream crowds want to watch a movie about good things happening in black neighborhoods? Do black audiences want to see a little girl doing something in a white world? "
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Good
Black
Girl
" Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still. "
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More
Still
Some
" 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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Warrior
Think
" The 50s are the age of elegance. That's kind of my intention when I get dressed: casual elegance. "
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Kind
Elegance
Dressed
" 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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Best Friend
Friend
God
" I don't think Othello is a jealous man - he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person... The playwright uses the word 'jealousy' over and over and over again, but I don't think it has anything to do with being jealous. "
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Play
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Jealousy
" Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself. "
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Acting
Childlike
" I always wanted to play a cowboy. I just didn't get to do it the way I thought I would. "
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Way
Thought
Cowboy
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Our
" I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick. "
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Sick
Getting
" 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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Know
" I carry a lot of feminine energy as well as masculine energy, and that's the hit that people are getting. That vulnerable thing is not what we assume with black males. You get it, and then they cease to become scary. They become human. You cease to have a bogeyman. "
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Energy
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