Morgan Freeman Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Morgan Freeman on Wise Famous Quotes.
Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.
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 don't know what my favorite film of mine is ... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.
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.
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.
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.
I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was ... I always wanted to be a movie actor.
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.
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible ... Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.
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.
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.
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.
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.