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Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne
American Actor
Born: Jul 30, 1961
Actor Good Me People Think You
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On a motorcycle, you can't really think about more than where you are. There's a freedom that comes with that - from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff. Laurence Fishburne
Freedom Motorcycle You Stress Think Worry About More Small Stuff Than Where Sweating Really
My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I'd say: 'Leave me alone. Don't push so much.' Laurence Fishburne
Alone Me Tired Woman Mother Say Would Push Pushing She Got Leave Leave Me Alone Quite Much Her
I try to meditate. Laurence Fishburne
Try Meditate
The 50s are the age of elegance. That's kind of my intention when I get dressed: casual elegance. Laurence Fishburne
Age Kind Dressed Casual Get Intention Elegance
We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit. Laurence Fishburne
Mind Three Spirit Three-Dimensional Body Beings
I always wanted to play a cowboy. I just didn't get to do it the way I thought I would. Laurence Fishburne
Thought Way Would Always Cowboy Get Just Wanted Play
A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me. Laurence Fishburne
Me People Smart Black Guy Most Them Confronting
I've been around long enough now and have learned to be flexible enough to know that every movie isn't going to be 'Apocalypse Now,' and every director doesn't have to be Stanley Kubrick. Laurence Fishburne
Director Long Every Enough Know Learned Around Kubrick Been Going Movie Apocalypse Flexible Stanley Stanley Kubrick Now
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. Laurence Fishburne
You Research Approach Kind Only Ready Real Role Person Real Person Get Going Different Want Different Kind Then Certain Requires Useful Each Amount Playing
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
Me Mindful Responsible Parent Fact Learn Am Continue Being Children Want Necessarily Need
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. Laurence Fishburne
You Looking Stars Franchise Those Indiana Indiana Jones Only Had Another Go Matrix Get Wars Ever
All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can. Laurence Fishburne
Know Trying Whenever Different Little Things
I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet. Laurence Fishburne
People Seen Television About Talk Heard Lot Grind Series
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. Laurence Fishburne
Marlon Brando System Martin Scenes Had Studio Studio System Sheen Sort Disciples Around Dean Enamored Were Brando Child Child Actor Any James Movie James Dean Who Now Actor
I was a child actor but not a child star. Laurence Fishburne
Child Child Actor Star Actor
There's a lot of stuff that's not good that's touted as being good. Laurence Fishburne
Good Stuff Lot Being
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. Laurence Fishburne
You People Black Become Energy Assume Carry Scary Masculine Well Vulnerable Feminine Males Cease Lot Hit Get Getting Human Then Thing
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. Laurence Fishburne
Old Dance Slow Young Too Color Never Wrong Like Buffalo Parts Because Got Bunch American Either Ground Plays
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
People Old Whatever Hot Been Years Going Want Happened Actor
Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself. Laurence Fishburne
You Yourself Free Well Childlike Order Act Acting Thing
Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. Laurence Fishburne
You Characters See Because Effects Essential Essential Elements Just Just Because Mean Them Special Special Effects Elements
Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life. Laurence Fishburne
Life Mine Mentors Were Informal Working Working Life
I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood. Laurence Fishburne
Childhood Much Livelihood
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. Laurence Fishburne
Life Myself Man Think Our Relatively Some Something Purpose Point Through Open Go Existence Lot Questioning Intelligent Intelligent Man Being Different Meaning Meaning Of Who Different Things Things
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
Good Me First Cried Kids Would Some No Idea About Could Had Knew Idea Poland Read Been Warsaw
Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist' means a lot to me. Laurence Fishburne
Me Lot Means
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