Laurence Fishburne Quotes

I didn't grow up as child actor.

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

I wouldn't even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there's a difference.

When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.

I was not a child star. I was more like a young auditioner.

I grew up on camera. I started at 16.

I want to be tagged as an actor and not as a star.

Now that I am playing a movie star, I am ready to be a real one.

I never said I wanted to be a movie star.

You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor.

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.

If someone asked me to be in a movie, I'd be more than happy.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie 'Cellular.' I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because it's obnoxious.

I come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

One day I was in school, and the next I was acting opposite Jeremy Irons. That's how quickly it happened. I was in class and then working with Sir Anthony Hopkins.

I've been acting for 30 years. It's a grind.

I have three brothers and a sister. One older and three younger. My oldest brother Danny plays Hyde on 'That '70s Show,' and my younger brother Jordan and my sister Allanah act as well, so we're a bit of an acting family.

I went to Broadway and I've been doing some fun guest spots with 'Entourage' and 'Glee' and I'm ready to have my own show.