Quotes from Laurence Fishburne

On a motorcycle, you can't really think about more than where you are. There's a freedom that comes with that - from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff.

Doing 'CSI: N.Y.' is not 'CSI.' Doing 'CSI: Miami' is not 'CSI: N.Y.,' it's 'CSI: Miami.' It has a very, very specific tone. It has a very specific look. It has a specific way in which they tell their stories that's different from 'CSI: N.Y.' and 'CSI.'

It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief.

Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.

I really don't know that I'm iconic. I don't even know that people think I'm cool.

You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.

I'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed.

You can't be bad when you're working with a kid. They have the instincts that all great actors have.

I work with my instincts. I don't have a process that I learned in an acting class whereby I break a script down or whereby I do a certain kind of research.

The 50s are the age of elegance. That's kind of my intention when I get dressed: casual elegance.

As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground.

We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.

I don't believe in acting teachers for me, so it's God's joke that he gave me a best friend who's an acting teacher.

There's a bunch of plays that I never got to do because I was either too young or too old for the parts, like 'Slow Dance on the Killing Ground' and 'Dutchman.' For 'American Buffalo,' I was the wrong color.

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

When I was ten, I did a play at the Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, Charles Fuller's first play. He went on to write 'A Soldier's Story,' among other things. I realized, 'Oh, I can be anything doing this.'

Playing solo with an audience for an hour and 30 minutes without a break means I have to, as the jazz cats say, get into the shed and work on my chops.

If you asked someone who was a Maori about how they felt about how they were treated in Australia or New Zealand, you'll get an answer. They'll have something to tell you. And you might not like what you hear.

Things have become considerably better for men of colour since I was born. But I'd say that we'll be really getting somewhere when things get better for women of colour.

I have a relationship with the southern hemisphere that's a really good one. I love it there.

My production company, what we are trying to do is I'm trying to create content that speaks to me, and it's not one color. It's not one size fits all.

Projects don't need to be special for me to sign up, but I do need them to have something that speaks to me in some way.

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God.