A biography for Laurence Fishburnehasn’t been written yet.
“I can't imagine not coming back to the theater. It's where I started.”
“Most of us are afraid of our success, that we will actually be great.”
“I love the opportunity to use my full range, and so playing in the comedy 'Black-ish' gives me the opportunity to show my lighter side, and playing in this beautiful, elegant horror story of 'Hannibal,' I get to use my darker and more cerebral side. It's really wonderful.”
“I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.”
“I really don't know that I'm iconic. I don't even know that people think I'm cool.”
“Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.”
“My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.”
“Obviously, after 'The Matrix,' it was a case of, 'OK, I did that. What's next?' I mean, it's always like that, but more so this time. How do I change it up? How do I keep it interesting for myself?”
“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.”
“I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.”
“Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist' means a lot to me.”
“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.”
“I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.”
“I actually had the opportunity to stand at the lectern in the Supreme Court and face the justices, which was really a powerful thing for me.”
“It's my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well.”
“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.”
“The 50s are the age of elegance. That's kind of my intention when I get dressed: casual elegance.”
“When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do.”
“The commercial I did for Kia was hilarious and unexpected, so that, I think, is also another way of signaling to the audience that there's more to me than Morpheus.”
“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.”