Laurence Fishburne Quotes

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

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.

I certainly believe that being in contact with ones spirit and nurturing ones spirit is as important as nurturing ones body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

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.

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

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

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.

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

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.

I think everyone is very surprised at how matrix has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

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.

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.