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

Laurence Fishburne

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

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" 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. "

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" It's nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas. "

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

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" It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief. "

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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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" '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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood. "

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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'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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" I try to meditate. "

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

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" I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick. "

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" I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks. "

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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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" I really don't know that I'm iconic. I don't even know that people think I'm cool. "

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" You can't go looking for another one of those franchises. You only ever get one of those. You get 'Stars Wars'; you get 'Indiana Jones' or get 'The Matrix.' I've had my franchise. "

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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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" We don't really see a lot of war movies about the people that are left behind, dealing with the deaths of those who serve and the sacrifices they make. "

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" Acting and philanthropy are braided together. I've tried to seek out things that speak not just specifically to the community that created me, but that speak in a way that's universal and all of humanity celebrates. "

Laurence Fishburne

" 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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" 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. "

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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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" 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 don't necessarily go out and try to do something that's going to be just something that will please the audience. I'm not interested in doing something where I get the most people to come see the movie at the same time and they get the biggest explosion. I'm not interested in that. "

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" Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. "

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