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Laurence Fishburne Quotes

A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me.

Laurence Fishburne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Smart People Me Black Guy Most

A film that doesn't get distributed is like a child that never gets married.

Child Never Film Get Like Married

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?

Jennifer Garner

Life Smile Beauty You Bad Need

I'm grateful for my family and my peers.

Family Grateful Peers

Whether it's a movie I'm in or not, if there's a good movie, and it's low budget, and you know everyone's done it just because they were passionate about it and they cared for it, if it has any kind of audience, it's just a wonderful outcome.

Good Budget You Just Because Know

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

Finish Inspired Act Get Once While

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

Janice Dickinson

Myself Addiction Horrible Former

This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come - this is why so many women, particularly women of colour, feel alienated from mainstream western academic feminism. Because don't we want it to be mainstream?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Women People Feel Party Want Why

The best adaptations are the ones that really excavate the material. The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing and put it into a story.

Work Character Beautiful Best Smart

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

Me First Painful Well Sell Shocking

I'd still love to work with John Romita Sr. at some point. That's the dream.

Work Love Dream Point Still Some

I spent some time in Vegas when I was doing some canvassing for Obama back in 2008.

Time Doing Vegas Back Some Spent

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

Happy You Write Things Who Easier

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