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" There's a bunch of plays that I never got to do because I was either too young or too old for the parts, like 'Slow Dance on the Killing Ground' and 'Dutchman.' For 'American Buffalo,' I was the wrong color. "

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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?' "

Laurence Fishburne

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

" 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. "

" Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist' means a lot to me. "

Laurence Fishburne

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

" I can't imagine not coming back to the theater. It's where I started. "

" Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still. "

Laurence Fishburne

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

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" I carry a lot of feminine energy as well as masculine energy, and that's the hit that people are getting. That vulnerable thing is not what we assume with black males. You get it, and then they cease to become scary. They become human. You cease to have a bogeyman. "

" 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. "

" All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can. "

" As a man of colour, I've spent my life asking people to see me for who I am. With Obama in the White House, it feels like people have finally caught up to where I've been most of my life. "

" Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor. "

" 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. "

" We are our children's first teachers. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

Laurence Fishburne

Vocation

Actor

" If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish. "

" 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. "

" I actually had the opportunity to stand at the lectern in the Supreme Court and face the justices, which was really a powerful thing for me. "