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" 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. "

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" 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

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Parent

" In order to be the best version of yourself, you have to dedicate time, effort, and support to other people who need it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We are our children's first teachers. "

" The commercial I did for Kia was hilarious and unexpected, so that, I think, is also another way of signaling to the audience that there's more to me than Morpheus. "

Laurence Fishburne

Audience

Way

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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?' "

" 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

" I learned tolerance at a very early age. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life. "

" Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'. "

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

" I can't remember a picture that has expressed black attitudes and personal relationships as vividly as we've done in 'Cadence.' "

" 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. "

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

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