131 Quotes by Laurence Fishburne

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

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.

Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.

I don't want to be 45 years old and have been a hot actor when I was 33 and have people going, 'Whatever happened to Fishburne?'

Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still.