Laurence Fishburne Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 30, 1961

Topics

LifeMyselfManPurposeThinkGo

If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.

Jenny Lewis

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I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.

Matt Dillon

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My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

Steve Harvey

MotherHomeCollegeMeChurchWay

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

Sibel Kekilli

GoodMeGameYouActingWant

Why is it that the producers can do anything and get away with it, and the actors are held accountable for everything? The makers often stop actors' payments, too. Everything is in their favour in the contract.

Shilpa Shinde

StopWhyEverythingAnythingGet

I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.

Roberto Burle Marx

GardenSaladDid

Biology - DNA - is technology. It is coding. It is physical coding, but still code.

Ryan Bethencourt

TechnologyBiologyDNAStillCode

Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

Masa Takayama

TodayRestaurantFirstExpensive

Everybody is someone else's instrument.

Michael Wolf

SomeoneInstrumentEverybodyElse

Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.

Michael Leunig

LifeWorkCuteCultureMenMaturity

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

Brooks Robinson

TimeMomentsLoudestContractPretty

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

Anne Rice

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