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I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

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

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.

I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.

My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I'd say: 'Leave me alone. Don't push so much.'

When I first read 'Boyz,' I cried. It could have been about some kids in Warsaw, Poland. I knew it was good, but I had no idea what it would do to me.

I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood.

I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor.

I can't remember a picture that has expressed black attitudes and personal relationships as vividly as we've done in 'Cadence.'

It's nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas.

Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor.

I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.

If you asked someone who was a Maori about how they felt about how they were treated in Australia or New Zealand, you'll get an answer. They'll have something to tell you. And you might not like what you hear.

I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why you're there and all that stuff. It's good to know something. I like to know, but I've never been one of these, 'Just show me my stuff,' no, I like to know what the whole picture is so I can understand how I fit into it.

John Wick is not a guy that asks for help, so when he goes to somebody for help, whoever that is, you know he's a serious cat.

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

People think my name is Morpheus. Many times, people will say to me, 'Morpheus!' and I will complete the sentence by saying, 'is not my name!'

It's a huge blessing to know you've done something that has affected people the way 'The Matrix' has. It's like, there's 'Star Wars,' and then there's 'The Matrix.' It's cool to be a part of that.

My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.

It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.

If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish.

We don't really see a lot of war movies about the people that are left behind, dealing with the deaths of those who serve and the sacrifices they make.

It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief.

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