Fishburne Quotes

#1. 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

#2. There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

Michael Fassbender

#3. I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

Laurence Fishburne

#4. I was running around with two guns on my waist like I was Larry Fishburne or something. I wasn't making no money, I was just running around with two guns like Larry Fishburne.

Sean Price

#5. We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.

Laurence Fishburne

#6. If you're brave enough to get through the darkness then you shall shine in the light.

Matthew Donnelly

#7. He was the hardest person to figure out I had ever met, which was saying something. I knew girls, after all....

Chris O'Guinn

#8. I try to do the same thing when I'm with young actors who are new and unsure. I try to do the same thing for them that I saw Laurence [Fishburne] and Angela [Dasset]do for all of us on Boyz n the Hood.

Nia Long

#9. 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.

Laurence Fishburne

#10. 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.

Laurence Fishburne

#11. The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!

William Shakespeare

#12. If you model yourself after Lawrence Fishburne, you can never go wrong.

Mac Miller

#13. Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

Laurence Fishburne

#14. 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

#15. I've known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.

Ving Rhames

#16. In 'The Matrix,' you see the fight between Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishburne. It's an amazing fight. But I know that they've rehearsed it for months beforehand. Because in some of the moves you can see them anticipating blocks before they actually happen.

Daniel Wu

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

Laurence Fishburne

#18. I have a voice. It's one of my gifts. I intend to use it on behalf of the children that UNICEF seeks to aid.

Laurence Fishburne

#19. In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling.

Frederick Lenz

#20. Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Kiki Smith

#21. People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy.

Laurence Fishburne

#22. An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy ... Who else? Donald Faison. Directed by Steven Spielberg. That would be awesome.

Donald Faison

#23. 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.

Laurence Fishburne

#24. He was on the bench for 36 years and had the girth to show it.

Rodes Fishburne

#25. I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

Laurence Fishburne

#26. I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

Mark Hamill

#27. 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.

Laurence Fishburne

#28. 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.

Laurence Fishburne

#29. When you're on screen with Mads, there's some real fireworks because your character is his intellectual equal. In a way, maybe your character has an instinct as to who this man really is.

Laurence Fishburne