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" It's a huge blessing to know you've done something that has affected people the way 'The Matrix' has. It's like, there's 'Star Wars,' and then there's 'The Matrix.' It's cool to be a part of that. "

Laurence Fishburne

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" I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'. "

" 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. "

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" There's a lot of stuff that's not good that's touted as being good. "

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" I have a man cave somewhere in California - a totally undisclosed location where manly things occur. There are motorcycles, there are secret doors and passageways. Women are welcome, but they must knock. "

" 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. "

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" It's important for a lot of young black males to value swagger over intelligence. Swagger is important, but intelligence must come before the swagger. "

" I'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed. "

" As a movie star, you get good tables at restaurants. "

" 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 have a relationship with the southern hemisphere that's a really good one. I love it there. "

" 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 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God. "

" 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

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" I'm passionate about all the things I do, really. "

" 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. "

" Projects don't need to be special for me to sign up, but I do need them to have something that speaks to me in some way. "

" We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit. "

" 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. "

" I try to meditate. "

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" Anytime we're talking about Thurgood Marshall, that's a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look at the history, and recognize what his contributions were. "