Top 29 Fishburne Quotes
#1. 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
#2. If you model yourself after Lawrence Fishburne, you can never go wrong.
Mac Miller
#3. I've known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.
Ving Rhames
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling.
Frederick Lenz
#10. Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
Kiki Smith
#11. People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy.
Laurence Fishburne
#12. 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
#13. He was on the bench for 36 years and had the girth to show it.
Rodes Fishburne
#14. I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.
Laurence Fishburne
#15. I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.
Mark Hamill
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. He was the hardest person to figure out I had ever met, which was saying something. I knew girls, after all....
Chris O'Guinn
#25. If you're brave enough to get through the darkness then you shall shine in the light.
Matthew Donnelly
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
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