Laurence Fishburne Quotes

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

Ving Rhames

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since.

Leo Kottke

#5. 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

#6. Oh, you will, some day, just as I'll hurt you too. That makes part of this
whole thing called being human, but to excel it and sincerely forgive the other
faults ... that is what makes a real friendship, what strengthens it.

Leia Kiuski

#7. 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

#8. Eva, can I pose as Aesop in a cave?"
No, Don.

Jon Agee

#9. A number of visitors called this morning,' Finchley announced with some pride. He took a tray from a waiting footman and displayed it as if it were a baby. Sure enough there was a little heap of cardboard bits, embossed with the names of nobility, acquaintances, friends and the purely curious.

Eloisa James

#10. 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

#11. Feeling giddy, I needed to share the exuberance I had inside me.

Kelli Jean

#12. You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

Edgar Guest

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

Laurence Fishburne

#14. 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

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

Laurence Fishburne

#16. But if planting deadly ferns at poolside was any indication, then it was clear that the designers of Jurassic Park had not been as careful as they should have been.

Michael Crichton

#17. 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

#18. 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

#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

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

Laurence Fishburne

#21. The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.

Philip Pullman

#22. Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

David Graeber

#23. Having a traditional view of marriage should not be seen as discriminatory, unfortunately the bill has promoted this notion. It has not created tolerance and has highlighted division.

Jim Dobbin

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. I am Merc and there are three things you should know about me. Number one. You might be bigger, but I will last longer. Number two. If you fuck me, I fuck everything you ever loved. And number three. I never lose. My victory is only delayed.

J.A. Huss

#27. 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

#28. I do not live in the present ... I AM the present.

Paul Palnik

#29. The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.

R.S. Thomas

#30. 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

#31. Great floods have flown From simple sources.

William Shakespeare

#32. 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

#33. In a fallacious world where we live; it is much easy to create a God rather than pretending to find one.

M.F. Moonzajer