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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 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. "

Laurence Fishburne

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God

" I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is. "

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

" 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. "

" When I was ten, I did a play at the Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, Charles Fuller's first play. He went on to write 'A Soldier's Story,' among other things. I realized, 'Oh, I can be anything doing this.' "

" 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

" I had two times in my life where I wanted to give up everything I worked for, but God gave me a job. "

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

" I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why you're there and all that stuff. It's good to know something. I like to know, but I've never been one of these, 'Just show me my stuff,' no, I like to know what the whole picture is so I can understand how I fit into it. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it. "

" 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. "

Laurence Fishburne

Warrior

Think

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

" 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. "

" I learned tolerance at a very early age. "

" I return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love it. "

" 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

Need

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" I don't want to be 45 years old and have been a hot actor when I was 33 and have people going, 'Whatever happened to Fishburne?' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "