Laurence Fishburne movie quotes

“- Lawrence: I dreamt I woke up and I was white.
- Stokes: That's no dream man. That's a nightmare.”
John Toles-Bey - Lawrence
Laurence Fishburne - Stokes

“- Royce: How do we kill them?
- Noland: However you can.
- Isabelle: They must have a weakness.
- Noland: Not many.”
Adrien Brody - Royce
Laurence Fishburne - Noland
Alice Braga - Isabelle

“- Whitey Powers: The moment I laid eyes on him, I could tell he'd done time. They never lose it, you know. That tension, it settles up around their shoulders.
- Sean Devine: He just lost his daughter, maybe that's what's settled in his shoulders.
- Whitey Powers: No, that's in his stomach. The tension in his shoulders, that's prison.”
Laurence Fishburne - Whitey Powers
Kevin Bacon - Sean Devine

“I have imagined this moment for a long time. Is it real?”

Laurence Fishburne - Morpheus

“My name is Cole Williams. And if I ever see you in this town again, I will break your cheek bone with a small hammer, and then I will kill you.”

Laurence Fishburne - Cole Williams

“Mr. Williams thinks I am an Uncle Tom, hm? Well, well, well. What does that have to do with your ability to place a comma in its proper place or put a period at the end of a sentence?”

Laurence Fishburne - Professor Maurice Phipps

What is real? How do you define "real"? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then "real" is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
Laurence Fishburne - Morpheus

“I have dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone from me.”
Laurence Fishburne - Morpheus

“Have you ever seen fire in zero gravity? It's beautiful. It's like liquid, it slides all over everything. Comes up in waves.”

Laurence Fishburne - Miller

“I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.”
Laurence Fishburne - Morpheus

“It knows my fears, it knows my secrets! Gets inside your head and... it shows you!”

Laurence Fishburne - Miller

“- Niobe: Some things in this world never change.
- Morpheus: But some things do?
- Niobe: Luckily... some things do.”
Jada Pinkett Smith - Niobe
Laurence Fishburne - Morpheus

“This place is a tomb!”

Laurence Fishburne - Miller

“This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill: the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill: you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”

Laurence Fishburne - Morpheus

“- Trinity: You always told me to stay off the freeway.
- Morpheus: Yes, that's true.
- Trinity: You said it was suicide.
- Morpheus: Then let us hope that I was wrong.”

Carrie-Anne Moss - Trinity
Laurence Fishburne - Morpheus

“- Dr. Larabee: Does that mean anything to you?
- Akeelah: I don't know.
- Dr. Larabee: It's written in plain English. What does it mean?
- Akeelah: That I'm not supposed to be afraid?
- Dr. Larabee: Afraid of what?
- Akeelah: Afraid of... me?”

Laurence Fishburne - Dr. Larabee
Keke Palmer - Akeelah

“- Carver: I can't buy that much shit, John. I don't have that in the budget.
- John Hull: Well, what am I supposed to do with it?
- Carver: You're a drug dealer. Deal drugs.”

Charles Martin Smith - Carver
Laurence Fishburne - John Hull

“- Leeds: Now I bet you niggers do think y'all white. College don't mean shit. Y'all niggers, and you gonna be niggers forever... just like us. Niggers.
- Dap: You're not niggers.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Leeds
Laurence Fishburne - Dap

“- David Jason: What's the most intense sex thing you ever did? You ever, uh, been with two women at the same time?
- John Hull: Yeah, your mother and your father.”
Jeff Goldblum - David Jason
Laurence Fishburne - John Hull

“We took eleven million in drug profits out of the van. The money doesn't know where it comes from, but I do. If I keep it, I'm a criminal. If I give it to the government, I'm a fool. If I try and do some good with it, maybe it just makes things worse. Either way, I'll probably just wind up getting myself in more trouble. It's an impossible...” (continue)(continue reading)
Laurence Fishburne - John Hull

“The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTU's of body heat.”
Laurence Fishburne - Morpheus

“- Commander Lock: Not everyone believes what you believe.
- Morpheus: My beliefs do not require them to.”
Harry Lennix - Commander Lock
Laurence Fishburne - Morpheus

“Ebola? Let me tell you something about Ebola, baby. Ebola is a case of dandruff compared to me!”
Laurence Fishburne - Thrax

“- Miller: Vacate! I want off this ship!
- Dr. Weir: You can't leave. She won't let you.”

Laurence Fishburne - Miller
Sam Neill - Dr. Weir

“Medical books aren't written about losers!”
Laurence Fishburne - Thrax