Laurence Fishburne Quotes

My well-known aesthetic sense, which is so obvious and personal, spontaneously spurs me to challenge myself with different disciplines.

You need to reinvent yourself every day when you are doing creative work. I always say that the moment I feel I'm at the top of the mountain and I cannot do more, I would be finished. So that's why I always feel the earth quake beneath my feet. I always feel myself on the fire. Because I think this is something that gives you the right adrenaline to work and go forward in your professional life. I have reinvented myself, believe me, many times in my life!

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

For me, competition is good; that is what keeps me on my toes and keeps me going. I am always trying to better my own work, do better than my earlier films... do films that are challenging and exciting for me.

I have always strived to do something different, to push myself.

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don't mean to say I knew everything, because I didn't, but I would do what I knew and then push beyond that and see what else I could find.

The best businesspeople have a hunger to make their todays better than their yesterdays. They have a staggeringly large appetite for pushing the envelope.

Acting's such a good job in that you're stimulating and pushing yourself constantly. I'd never want to do anything comfortable.

You're always reinventing yourself and looking for what's new and what you haven't done before.

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

I always look for reinventing myself... doing something different and new.

Our craft is all we have. So, we should keep it challenging and exciting. Else, there's no actual growth.

I love to experiment, to push myself, and I want people to accept me in roles that I have never attempted before.

You never really stop learning. You have to experiment and reinvent life to sustain your interest.

As much as I can and am able to, with the projects that are presented to me, I try to just really choose things that are challenging and are something I haven't tackled before.

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but while I'm doing it, I'm just a happy little moron - that's how my girlfriend describes me. The fact that nothing might happen with those things is not the point. The point is, I'm doing new things, and I have a good feeling in my soul.

To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

Some people might be groomed for success; I've just always thought I've got a hell of a lot of things to learn and places to go. Creatively, I couldn't stay on the same treadmill. I chose to be off-centre and do collaborative work.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.