Quotes from Laurence Fishburne movies and TV shows

Dr. Larabee: Where do you think big words come from?
Akeelah: People with big brains?

Akeelah: I'm naturally inquisitive.
Dr. Larabee: Yes, which is also sometimes confused with being naturally obnoxious.

Jake Roenick: Don't miss, Bishop.
Marion Bishop: Run fast, Sergeant.

Iris Ferry: I can't stop thinking about sex, I usually think about sex a lot but this is crazy.
Marion Bishop: Sex and death are very closely related, the Greeks called it Eros and Thanatos love and death, or sex as a way of nullifying thoughts of dying.

Marion Bishop: Marcus Duvall still lives. To me this is unacceptable.

Smoke: Damn, Kid, why can't we just talk? You know like.
Kid: Like what? Father and son?
Smoke: Naw, like friends.
Kid: We aint friends.
Smoke: Alright, father and son then.
Kid: We aint that either.
Smoke: Jaleel, I'm your father.
Kid: Fuck you Smoke.

Furious Styles: Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children.

The Old Man: Ain't nobody from outside bringing down the property value. It's these folk, shootin' each other and sellin' that crack rock and shit.
Furious Styles: Well, how you think the crack rock gets into the country? We don't own any planes. We don't own no ships. We are not the people who are flyin' and floatin' that shit in here.

Furious Styles: Rick, it's the Nineties. Can't afford to be afraid of our own people anymore, man.

Furious Styles: What'd you use?
Tre Styles: I used the number she gave me... Why you sweating me? I didn't have to use nothing. She said she was on the pill.
Furious Styles: How many times do I have I told you, if a girl says she's on the pill, you use somethin anyway. Pill ain't goin' to keep your dick from falling off. I don't know why you insist on learning things the hard way, but you gon' learn. Oh yeah, you gon' learn. Pick up that hair.

Furious Styles: I know every time you turn on the TV, that's what you see. Black people, sellin' the rock, pushin' the rock, pushin' the rock. Yeah, I know. But that wasn't a problem as long as it was here. It wasn't a problem until it was in Iowa, on Wall Street, where there are hardly any black people.

Det. Matthew 'Gib' Gibson: Dodge.
Dodge: Gibson.
Det. Matthew 'Gib' Gibson: It's a setup.
Piper: Move.

Piper: Come on, Dodge! We gotta fled.

The Bowery King: Somebody, please...get this man a gun.

Bowery King: Ooooooooh how sweet it is... The Boogeyman begging me for help.

Quantom X ★

Bowery King: Oh and remember! You owe me.
John Wick: You don't want me owing you.

Quantom X ★

The Bowery King: He's offered seven million dollars for your life. Seven million dollars is a lot of money, Mr. Wick.
John Wick: So I guess you have a choice. Do you want a war? Or do you want to just give me a gun?

The Bowery King: As I live and breathe! John Wick... The man. The myth. The legend. You're not very good at retiring.
John Wick: I'm working on it.

Commander Lock: Dammit, Morpheus. Not everyone believes what you believe.
Morpheus: My beliefs do not require them to.

Niobe: I remember. I remember you used to dance. I remember you were pretty good.
Morpheus: There are some things in this world, captain Niobe, that will never change.
Lock: Niobe!
Morpheus: Some things do change.