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I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went Oooh.


Laurence Fishburne

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I've known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.
VING RHAMES An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine D...
DONALD FAISON You could tell that this was our first game of the season. I can think of only one other game in whi...
DAVID HILTON I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that fa...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the caus...
JEAN GENET No, no. I'm not a shooter. I could run the show and get it to guys like you 'cause you can shoot it....
MAGIC JOHNSON That took a lot of wind out of our sails. A lot of guys said 'Oh my' after that one. It was a bad sn...
CARROLL MCCRAY We'll work on that next time. I just went out there and played hard. When you play with these guys, ...
LUKE ZELLER Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villai...
EDWARD NORTON I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking...
RICHARD PRYOR Usually, the drug of choice for African-Americans is cocaine, ... Ive battled with it even though I ...
BRIAN CALDWELL I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just...
D.A. PAUL I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because ...
NOLAN RYAN He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who ...
RYAN GIGGS I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly gett...
REBECCA FERGUSON I could not wait to get back. I know I'm one of the lucky ones. My apartment was fine ... A lot of g...
JESSE MOORE I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francais...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in ...
CLAIRE DANES I have played my fair share of bad guys, or at least the nemesis.
ERIC JOHNSON I realized we had a lot of openings and a lot of guys left, so that was an opportunity for me to get...
ERIC SOGARD The thing that I consider most important about my work is this: I told it like it is. I told my read...
CARL BARKS He's made huge strides. Last fall I said this guy is going to be the guy and I didn't get a lot of p...
BRIAN LECLERC I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I c...
SARA BAREILLES I went out of my way to say good things when people were saying a lot of bad things about him.
JOE RATTO I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, ...
EARL CAMPBELL When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the b...
LARRY BIRD That was my idea, I didn't want that joker to get hit in the face. He had a lot of plastic surgery.
DANNY CARLISLE I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to...
DAVID CROSS Only when he saw this face, and this actress, could he make the movie.
LIV ULLMANN A lot of the guys have done that and put the time in this past summer and winter and that just makes...
DOUG DEXHEIMER I think winning states had a lot to do with it. The further we went, the more people saw us play and...
ALEX REDMOND It was a bad throw by me, absolutely awful. Stephen was the check down. I saw him there and took my ...
JAKE DELHOMME Laurence the last time I saw something like you I flushed it away.
MARK A. COOPER I dont believe in luck. Ive only ever felt lucky finding God and even that was not by chance.
MEG NEZAJ People are relying on local fruit, and they have little food to eat. I went out to get bread, and co...
AFTAB SHERPAO People are relying on local fruit, and they have little food to eat. I went out to get bread, and co...
AFTAB KHAN SHERPAO We just had a couple of bad ends. My team played great. I just wish I could throw that last one agai...
EVE BELISLE It was one of those things where it was tough to see. After I saw it, I came busting in. All of a su...
RYAN CHURCH With my speed and the way I can shoot the ball, if I get my body to where I want it, it can cause a ...
CARLTON REED When I first saw the picture of Emmett Till, I was 10. I couldn't believe that something so bad coul...
KEITH BEAUCHAMP In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, peo...
BUNKER ROY People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.
AARON TVEIT When I first saw him, I saw James Dean. He had that T-shirt with the cigarettes rolled up in the sle...
CONSTANCE RAPPAPORT When things could go bad, it went bad, ... It was almost like a bad episode of 'The Twilight Zone.
DAUNTE CULPEPPER When things could go bad, it went bad. It was almost like a bad episode of 'The Twilight Zone'.
DAUNTE CULPEPPER When things could go bad, it went bad, ... It was almost like a bad episode of 'The Twilight Zone.'
DAUNTE CULPEPPER I looked out and saw all these Rudolph red noses and people crying. It's like what Lisa went through...
CHITA RIVERA Someone said to me that [the Presidents Cup] was making my job a lot easier, and in a way he was rig...
TOM LEHMAN I think what really turned a lot of people on, when we saw him play basketball, he was that big and ...
DON DUNN We were geared up. We played with a lot of emotion and energy, and our defense was outstanding. Once...
DAN FRIEND They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. I took mine and fell flat on my fa...
JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ We have a lot of leadership. The key guys that are getting most of the ice time have played in a lot...
ROB SCHELLING I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I w...
PATRICK J. ADAMS I used to think of work as a bad word. Back in the corporate world, work was something that prevente...
JOSHUA FIELDS MILLBURN My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my m...
RAM CHARAN A guy that I was supposed to face - and I think that he was just plain downright scared to get in th...
BROCK LESNAR Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no...
CAB CALLOWAY I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and...
CHELSEA KANE When I started doing Sandman, I could look at a group of people lined up to get my autograph, and I ...
NEIL GAIMAN It was a well-played basketball game: they did some nice things with the ball but I didn't think our...
MIKE WOOD I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet H...
MARC WEBB I thought this game was an improvement over our first game of the year in a lot of ways. We had a co...
BOB ERICKSON We played real physical with a lot of intensity. We left practice bleeding a lot. If there was a loo...
DEAN MILLER Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then...
WAYNE ROONEY I spend a lot of my time thinking about what the bad guys are going to do next.
SCOTT CHASIN It was evenly played. We won the second half. It was a physical match but my guys played the way the...
DON TORDOFF I was working my way up through management so I could get my own store, ... Then they invited me to ...
COWBOY TROY What's unfortunate is that I know a lot of good guys who were in those organizations that don't know...
JEFF JENKINS The way that Zola was so productive reminds me of a wounded soldier who takes out more of the bad gu...
MARK LEVITT There's a lot of people picking this team to go really far in the playoffs. The fact it's my hometow...
CALE HULSE I went in to record the Philharmonic. I wrote down the parts, and I was inside the studio with 62 pi...
WYCLEF JEAN We have a lot of guys back that have played a lot of time for the past two years. We bring a lot of ...
PETE WILSON Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door i...
EDWARD G. ROBINSON Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight...
ZHANG JINDONG You could hear it when he ran out on the field, it was great with the crowd. You could feel the vibe...
MORGAN TURINUI Once you've played in the NHL, I think you get a little misunderstood sometimes. These guys, with th...
BRAD SHAW These guys (I played with), they knew they were crazy. With how the game was, you saw it (play out)....
GUILLERMO VILAS I think a lot of people thought that was it. We've done everything we could do, and I think that wou...
BRUCE PEARL To me, it was never about what I accomplished on the football field. It was about the way I played t...
JERRY RICE The first half, I was really worn out. The second half, I came out and played a lot better. I was gl...
FRANS STEYN A lot of people thought I wasn't ready last year. I think they saw (this year) that I could do a goo...
JEFF BATTLES I was facing sideways and I saw the defender out of the side of my eye and just lifted it over, ... ...
FREDDY ADU When it was over I felt he could have come to me. When I saw film, he had pressure in his face. He h...
JUSTIN PEELLE I haven't played a lot of nice guys.
MICHAEL DOUGLAS Since last year, when I went around the Philippines, I saw what the people need and I saw the clamor...
FERNANDO POE, JR. I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them ...
BOB SEGER Against Davis, our level of play went up a notch. The guys got a lot of the jitters out in the morni...
GEORGE HUSACK I was in jail nine straight years. I was on the lam two-and-a-half years before it. In that period o...
BURTON KAPLAN I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people.
CINDY CHRISTENSEN Brent played a great game. We knew what he could do, but I was glad to see the younger guys like Pat...
BILL JR Brent played a great game. We knew what he could do, but I was glad to see the younger guys like Pat...
BILL ZWAAN JR It was cool. I saw a lot of people from Montrose, and it was a lot of fun playing in front of them.
DIRK JOHNSON John played the bagpipes at the bazaar and I was wearing my kilt. It was a visual and audio cue that...
JOHN GRAHAM I don't think anybody realized until last Tuesday that this was a Klan-type outfit, a white supremac...
JAMES GRAY We went 3-8 my first year and 1-9 my second year. But I think we'll be a lot more competitive this y...
JAKE WEINGARTZ The only reason I played golf was so that I could afford to go hunting and fishing.
SAM SNEAD That was a bad play on my part. I thought maybe I could get to him (quickly enough and) I lunged. I ...
CLINT INGRAM It was very big to get that win and something we kind of played off. I felt no matter what happened ...
TODD ENGLE A lot of people get these dogs because they want - pardon my expression - a bad-ass dog.
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH They are working hard to gain strength and this year should be good for these guys because we will f...
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LAURENCE YEP Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no ...
LAURENCE STERNE By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying pathol...
LAURENCE MILLER When the chairman made his recommendation at the start of the go-round, the game was up, it was over...
LAURENCE MEYER I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't...
MARGARET LAURENCE The Committee continues to see the removal of accommodation as the focus of policy and has given no ...
LAURENCE MEYER We are pleased to finally reach an agreement on major remedies to deal with major water pollution pr...
LAURENCE LAU I'm a very good packer, but I probably take too much in the way of toiletries. You only really n...
LAURENCE FOX 'Richard III' is a really difficult play to film - it's involved, often obscure. I felt ...
LAURENCE OLIVIER It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary t...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms...
LAURENCE OLIVIER Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find your...
LAURENCE GONZALES Fantasy, myth, legend, truth - all are intertwined in the story that is Scotland.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE Do I think the shareholders are in a better position today than yesterday? Yes.
LAURENCE PETTIT The reason that kids take chances when they drive is not because they're ignorant. It's because othe...
LAURENCE STEINBERG The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public...
LAURENCE STEINBERG Life without parole for kids presumes that they can't be changed.
LAURENCE STEINBERG The older you are, the more hours you can withstand without seeing harmful effects. But generally, n...
LAURENCE STEINBERG We are not very good at looking at people when they are 16 and predicting what they will be like whe...
LAURENCE STEINBERG If you have these four things, it doesn't matter what ethnic group you're from, you'll do well in sc...
LAURENCE STEINBERG If they were to drink multiple glasses of this mixture or concoction, I think there'd be a potential...
LAURENCE SPERLING Some of this benefit we see now may be a combination of our increased awareness of heart disease in ...
LAURENCE SPERLING Mr. Knight doesn't have $107 million. It remains to be seen what becomes of Death Row.
LAURENCE STRICK He has no choice, the way these people have forced his hand.
LAURENCE STRICK He doesn't pull any punches. He tells the pastors what's on his heart.
LAURENCE WHITE It's often said that there are countries where bribery is a way of life, and that's still the case.
LAURENCE URGENSON This is an amazing and rare collection of Michael Jordan memorabilia that doesn't come along everyda...
LAURENCE TONEY We're not trying to displace (offline sales); we're trying to offer another channel. Our goal is rea...
LAURENCE TONEY I believe a pastor has an obligation to speak to the moral issues of the country on the basis of the...
LAURENCE WHITE If you're having a Republican state convention, you want everybody there. This isn't that kind of me...
LAURENCE WHITE The Internet means record companies have to fight a bit harder.
LAURENCE BELL The extension of the contract demonstrates our strong confidence in the Chinese aviation market and ...
LAURENCE BARRON It's a good move for Airbus because we don't have enough space in Beijing now and China Eastern is t...
LAURENCE BARRON It is the 20th anniversary of the successful co-operation of Airbus with China's aviation industry, ...
LAURENCE BARRON