Morgan Freeman Quotes (69 Quotes)

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

You want to be home about three weeks after you left in a big way but the family's okay, particularly if you're going someplace you never been before.

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

On a double win for black actors It means that Hollywood is continuing to make history. We're evolving with the rest of the world.

Black history is American history.

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

In my country, we talk to our women, not drug them with plants.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

We want to give people what they want, when they want it. We are following the wave.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Strange country, this...England.

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.

I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

Anyone anywhere in the world who has the service will have front row seats right in the comfort of their own home. Think about that.

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.

I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.

I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.

We know its a very clean-burning fuel. It's renewable ... all we need to do is make it available.

People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?

We call on anybody who has even the thought (of giving) to get beyond the thought and help these people.

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

I gravitate towards gravitas.