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" 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. "

Laurence Fishburne

Now

Enough

Director

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

Laurence Fishburne

Vocation

Actor

" As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

Laurence Fishburne

Size

Color

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

" Things have become considerably better for men of colour since I was born. But I'd say that we'll be really getting somewhere when things get better for women of colour. "

" 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. "

" I'm not dyeing my hair and trying to pretend I'm 40. That's not going to work for me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Shooting a film with seven to eight actors together is complicated sometimes because you have to cover everybody. "

" I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself. "

" 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. "

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

" After 'Othello,' it was, like, 'I can stop acting. I have played one of the great characters in the English language. I feel I have played him well and honorably. I have nothing to prove anymore.' "

" My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I'd say: 'Leave me alone. Don't push so much.' "

Laurence Fishburne

Tired

Woman

" 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. "

" 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

Story

Opportunity

" Hiding a talent is not exclusive to any one particular group of people: young, old, black, white, Latin. It doesn't matter. It's universal. The idea that you have a gift or talent is always kind of threatening. "

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

" 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. "

" A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "