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I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick.

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It's important for a lot of young black males to value swagger over intelligence. Swagger is important, but intelligence must come before the swagger.

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My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, 'Bronzeville,' in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we're developing into a television show. It deals with a very tight-knit African-American community in Chicago in 1947 and people who run a numbers wheel.

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Do mainstream crowds want to watch a movie about good things happening in black neighborhoods? Do black audiences want to see a little girl doing something in a white world?

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If you're playing a real person, then you want to do a certain amount of research, but that's only going to be so useful to you. Each role requires a different kind of approach to get ready.

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I try to meditate.

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I always wanted to play a cowboy. I just didn't get to do it the way I thought I would.

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

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There's great theatre in New York City, but no New York City in theatre.

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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.

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As a man of colour, I've spent my life asking people to see me for who I am. With Obama in the White House, it feels like people have finally caught up to where I've been most of my life.

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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.

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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?'

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I'm not dyeing my hair and trying to pretend I'm 40. That's not going to work for me.

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

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As a movie star, you get good tables at restaurants.

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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.

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It's my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it's served me well.

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I was a child actor but not a child star.

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I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.

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You can't go looking for another one of those franchises. You only ever get one of those. You get 'Stars Wars'; you get 'Indiana Jones' or get 'The Matrix.' I've had my franchise.

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Anytime we're talking about Thurgood Marshall, that's a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look at the history, and recognize what his contributions were.

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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?

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