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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. "

Laurence Fishburne

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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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" You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain. "

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" I think there's going to be many special episodes of 'Blackish.' "

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

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" 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. "

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" I learned tolerance at a very early age. "

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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.' "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity. "

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" 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. "

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