Laurence Fishburne : (7) " 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.’ " - Laurence Fishburne " It’s nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It’s a gas. " - Laurence Fishburne " 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. " - Laurence Fishburne " I always wanted to play a cowboy. I just didn’t get to do it the way I thought I would. " - Laurence Fishburne " John Wick is not a guy that asks for help, so when he goes to somebody for help, whoever that is, you know he’s a serious cat. " - Laurence Fishburne " It’s a huge blessing to know you’ve done something that has affected people the way ‘The Matrix’ has. It’s like, there’s ‘Star Wars,’ and then there’s ‘The Matrix.’ It’s cool to be a part of that. " - Laurence Fishburne " I carry a lot of feminine energy as well as masculine energy, and that’s the hit that people are getting. That vulnerable thing is not what we assume with black males. You get it, and then they cease to become scary. They become human. You cease to have a bogeyman. " - Laurence Fishburne