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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. "
Laurence Fishburne
Group
Humanity
People
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" I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine. "
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" I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet. "
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" If you're playing a real person, then you want to do a certain amount of research, but that's only going to be so useful to you. Each role requires a different kind of approach to get ready. "
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" 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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" 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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" I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself. "
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" On a motorcycle, you can't really think about more than where you are. There's a freedom that comes with that - from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff. "
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You
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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. "
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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. "
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You
Know
" I've been around long enough now and have learned to be flexible enough to know that every movie isn't going to be 'Apocalypse Now,' and every director doesn't have to be Stanley Kubrick. "
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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. "
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Good
" I can't remember a picture that has expressed black attitudes and personal relationships as vividly as we've done in 'Cadence.' "
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" I'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed. "
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I Can
Feel
Think
" Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone. "
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" I was a child actor but not a child star. "
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Star
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Child
" 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. "
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First
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" 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. "
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Open
Myself
Purpose
" My production company, what we are trying to do is I'm trying to create content that speaks to me, and it's not one color. It's not one size fits all. "
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Size
Color
" 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. "
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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. "
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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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Old
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Top
" 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. "
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Value
Intelligence
Important
" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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God
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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'. "
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" You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain. "
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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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People
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