Morgan Freeman Quotes

Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.

Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.

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

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

I never said any of those quotes...

All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.

Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that.

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

I'm married, I've been married to the same woman for - well, I've been with the same woman for close to ... long enough to fool around.

I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.

I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.

Marketing only really works with word of mouth.

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

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

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

Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.

I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.

If I could narrate your life I would , especially Jose's.

From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.

There is no such thing as homophobia. It is not a fear. It is you being an asshole.

I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.

I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.

Never pay for what you steal

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.

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.

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'm a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it's supposed to.

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.

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.

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

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late.

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.

If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen.

Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.

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

I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

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

Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.

Your best posture is your next posture.

The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit.

You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.

I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle

I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.

If you're comfortable on a horse, you're comfortable on a horse. It's like being on a motorbike.

Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.

In the harshest place on Earth, ... love finds a way.

There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.

I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.

I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife.

My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.

I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.

I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

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.

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

The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.

I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.

Insanity is coasting through life ...

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.

If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was ... I always wanted to be a movie actor.

Never give up the ganja.

When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready.

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.

I would never complain that Hollywood is racist when I'm one of the people touted as a welcome entity there.

Black history is American history.

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

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

Ive got a lot of life left in me and I want to live it doing things I like to do.

I don't have to do anything. The character is shaped on the page.

Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible ... Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.

I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.

I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole,

People don't want to hang around someone that you don't know how they're going to react to anything you do or say.

Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.

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.

Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of

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.

These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

Audiences believe what you believe. It's a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you've got no choice. None at all.

Acting means living, it's all I do ...

The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.

Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.

Working on stage is really a great voice developer.