Laurence Fishburne Quotes

My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

I will go to my grave believing that participation is best driven by the well-stocked shop window.

Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

I just think when you read something that's magnetic that pulls you into it or resonates with you, whatever that may be, that's always a positive thing. And you never know what that's going to be.

People will be engaged in your work if it is good, interesting or challenging.

I think the thing that is meaningful is when I can tell that someone's been affected by the movie or by anything I made.

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.

I choose questions to work on according to how much they excite me.

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.

My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.

I just know when I read something if it's something that I want to do.

In order to move others, I must be moved.

I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.

I always tell people, the first time I heard 'She Talks To Angels,' those lyrics did something to me.

To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.

I'm really hoping to find something that I feel as connected with as I did with 'The Florida Project.' I want to feel that passionate about things that I work on. I don't want to just act to act.

I've always liked R.E.M. because, like so many things I like, they exude a warmth; I like to think that we do, too.