Laurence Fishburne

Playing solo with an audience for an hour and 30 minutes without a break means I have to, as the jazz cats say, get into the shed and work on my chops.

Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.

I'm not dyeing my hair and trying to pretend I'm 40. That's not going to work for me.

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

I work with my instincts. I don't have a process that I learned in an acting class whereby I break a script down or whereby I do a certain kind of research.