Laurence Fishburne

Actor

1961-07-30

Quotes by Laurence Fishburne

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

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• 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.

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• My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, 'Bronzeville,' in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we're developing into a television show. It deals with a very tight-knit African-American community in Chicago in 1947 and people who run a numbers wheel.

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• As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground.

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• When I first read 'Boyz,' I cried. It could have been about some kids in Warsaw, Poland. I knew it was good, but I had no idea what it would do to me.

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

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• If you asked someone who was a Maori about how they felt about how they were treated in Australia or New Zealand, you'll get an answer. They'll have something to tell you. And you might not like what you hear.

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