Laurence Fishburne Quotes

I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

To look back and know that I have had a pivotal role in the development of comics is something I'm very proud of, although it's not something I think about unless someone brings it up.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.

My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.

I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.

People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.

In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

I think that 'Twilight' is so big that nothing can affect it.

Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.

When someone's really good at encapsulating human emotion and putting it out in a form that can reach a variety of people, that's going to have a big effect when he's no longer there.

To know that someone decades later is still just as impactful as they were when they were alive, we need pioneers like that.

Everywhere I go, someone stops me and says, 'Oh, you're that guy from 'Terminator 2.'' So, it's something that has, you know, been around me since the movie came out.

I'm proud to have been in some of the films that continue to be a special part of people's lives.

I'm going to imprint myself on everything in this world.

The legacy that The Undertaker has had, I can't even put into words. He changed the landscape.

I want to leave a mark on society.

I can possibly say I have entertained and educated more people than anyone else in the world.

You never quite know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree.

I can only imagine what the show would have meant to me as a 16- or 17-year-old. I know what 'Rent' meant to me in my life, how that show changed the course of my life, and we can only hope that 'Hamilton' will have the same effect on a few kids.