Morgan Freeman Quotes (69 Quotes)

We are all part of American history. Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero. ... The world needs his message today more than ever before.

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

On Clint Eastwood, best director If he hires you, he hires you because he feels like you know what to do. And he's very, very largely out of the way. He directs the picture, you do the acting. I love that, and I think that most of the people that he works with love that.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.