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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
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" Shooting a film with seven to eight actors together is complicated sometimes because you have to cover everybody. "
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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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" 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?' "
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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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" All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can. "
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" 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. "
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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 don't think Othello is a jealous man - he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person... The playwright uses the word 'jealousy' over and over and over again, but I don't think it has anything to do with being jealous. "
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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 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. "
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" I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is. "
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" I learned tolerance at a very early age. "
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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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" I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit. "
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" You can't be bad when you're working with a kid. They have the instincts that all great actors have. "
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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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" I really don't know that I'm iconic. I don't even know that people think I'm cool. "
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" When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do. "
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" 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. "
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" A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me. "
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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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" I return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love it. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist' means a lot to me. "
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" The 50s are the age of elegance. That's kind of my intention when I get dressed: casual elegance. "
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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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