American - Actor | July 30, 1961 -
People think my name is Morpheus. Many times, people will say to me, 'Morpheus!' and I will complete the sentence by saying, 'is not my name!'
Laurence Fishburne
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It's a huge blessing to know you've done something that has affected people the way 'The Matrix' has. It's like, there's 'Star Wars,' and then there's 'The Matrix.' It's cool to be a part of that.
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My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.
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It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.
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If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish.
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We don't really see a lot of war movies about the people that are left behind, dealing with the deaths of those who serve and the sacrifices they make.
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It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief.
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'The Fugitive Kind,' 'Rope,' 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' - I watched all these as a way of reminding myself that you can do a movie based on a play. You can do a movie that stays in one place for a long stretch.
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I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it.
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When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do.
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Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.
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Acting and philanthropy are braided together. I've tried to seek out things that speak not just specifically to the community that created me, but that speak in a way that's universal and all of humanity celebrates.
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