Playing solo with an audience for an hour and 30 minutes without a break means I have to, as the jazz cats say, get into the shed and work on my chops. Laurence Fishburne Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Do mainstream crowds want to watch a movie about good things happening in black neighborhoods? Do black audiences want to see a little girl doing something in a white world? Laurence Fishburne Read Quote
It’s important for a lot of young black males to value swagger over intelligence. Swagger is important, but intelligence must come before the swagger. Laurence Fishburne Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Laurence Fishburne Read Quote
I have a relationship with the southern hemisphere that’s a really good one. I love it there. Laurence Fishburne Read Quote
