A biography for Laurence Fishburnehasn’t been written yet.
“It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.”
“Some people think of me as an actor and some as a movie star, so I sort of guess that makes me both. I love making movies, and I love playing on the stage.”
“Shooting a film with seven to eight actors together is complicated sometimes because you have to cover everybody.”
“My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I'd say: 'Leave me alone. Don't push so much.'”
“Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.”
“I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick.”
“I'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed.”
“There's a lot of stuff that's not good that's touted as being good.”