Laurence Fishburne Quotes

Hiding a talent is not exclusive to any one particular group of people: young, old, black, white, Latin. It doesn't matter. It's universal. The idea that you have a gift or talent is always kind of threatening.

Laurence Fishburne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TalentPeopleGiftBlackYouWhite

Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.

John Burnside

BirdsWoodsFindAncestorsNutsSet

Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

John Wanamaker

ThinkingNothingAboutMerely

Maybe it's stupidity, but you just gotta jump into things. That's how I've gone through life.

Troy Nixey

LifeStupidityYouJumpThingsGone

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

Shiv Nadar

SpeakFindWantRareRepeatLevel

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

Tom Cruise

LifeLearningPassionateAbout

I love my parents. I did love them. It's complicated.

Roz Chast

LoveParentsComplicatedDidThem

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

Martin Scorsese

ProvePiecesWhereFilmJustLike

I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered where I've been like, 'I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me.' I don't want to do something if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.

Molly Shannon

GoodJobMeThinkBetterFeel

Throughout my first year in office, I have stood up for principles that will guide our country back toward the path of freedom and prosperity.

Jason Chaffetz

FreedomPathYearBackCountryWill

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

Don Nickles

ThoughtIndependentRightDefendHad

My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met Steven Spielberg and got rides on his private plane to California. I'd see Spielberg's people reading scripts. I was like, 'That's what I want to be when I grow up.'

Doug Liman

PeopleReadingGrowWantConnected

Kepler's blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.

Debra Fischer

KnowEverythingPlanetsOffBlown

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