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Laurence Fishburne Quotes

Most of us are afraid of our success, that we will actually be great.

Laurence Fishburne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Success Great Will Afraid Us Most

The businessman gets his name on a door. The star gets his name in lights. They both get their names on a parking space.

Space Door Name Lights Parking Star

The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.

Work Great Myself You Sometimes

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

Time Start Library Loved Go Never

In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't marry and he couldn't own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic.

Lion Man Young Young Man Land Tribe

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

Science Test Arts Going Interested

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

Family Time People Me Trouble Edgy

As you evolve, you learn that wrestling is not necessarily about stunts or spots. You need to go out and show the audience that they can love you for the persona you are - not because of the risk you're willing to take or the jeopardy you're willing to put your body in.

Love Learn You Body Go Your Body

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Learning Culture Socialization Innate

I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

Love Singing Believe I Believe Stage

Our field is very focused on finding Earth 2.0, and anything we can do to narrow the search is helpful.

Search Finding Earth Focused Helpful

I like working, and my brain sort of keeps going whether I like it or not.

Brain Going Working Like Sort Keeps

You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.

Art Opinion World You Look Pictures

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