Top 100 Morgan Freeman Quotes
#1. What I haven't talked about I don't intend to talk about.
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#2. Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.
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#3. What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I'd like to get done.
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#4. I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.
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#5. I'm a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it's supposed to.
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#6. Your job is always the same if it's a juggernaut or if it's just one of these little jewels of a film that's gonna wind up at the Laemmle or something, so your job doesn't change whatsoever ... give it your best shot.
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#7. The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.
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#8. I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.
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#9. One of the things you can always depend on - this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here - whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.
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#10. There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
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#11. I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.
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#12. I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#15. I don't think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears open. You do learn something from every outing, every time that you go for it. But for me what actors do is interact and that's why you have to do that.
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#16. Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.
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#17. The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
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#18. The trick to any profession is making it look easy.
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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?
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#21. I am God. So it's easy to play him. They say God is in all things. So if God is in me, then I am in God. Therefore, I am God. God does not exist without me.
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#22. 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.
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#23. 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.
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#24. I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.
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#25. I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.
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#26. I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was ... I always wanted to be a movie actor.
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#27. All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.
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#28. I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.
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#29. 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.
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#30. If we say, 'Oh, my goodness ... we think we've found another Earthlike planet,' we will start trying to figure out how to get there. And I have this strong belief that whatever we think we can do, whatever we can dream, we can do.
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#31. If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.
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#32. If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space.
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#34. It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.
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#35. Kindness in thinking or giving, creates profoundness and happiness. Kindness in saying creates an everlasting love- Morgan Freeman
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#37. If I stay at home, I'm not famous. I'm only famous when I'm out in the streets, so I don't go out on the streets much.
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#39. Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.
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#41. I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.
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#42. 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.
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#43. In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that.
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#44. 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.
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#45. I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get me to open my mouth. And put my foot in it if necessary. I think the only thing I do that gives me any bragging rights in terms of energy conservation is sailing. Just using wind power.
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#46. Challenge yourself; it's the only path which leads to growth.
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#47. Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, 'Well, I'm tired of climbing this hill. I'm never going to get to the top.' And you're only two steps from the top.
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#48. If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.
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#50. If you're comfortable on a horse, you're comfortable on a horse. It's like being on a motorbike.
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#51. 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.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#54. Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.
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#56. Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.
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#57. A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said], "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine.
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#58. I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.
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#59. 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.
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#60. Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.
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#61. I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.
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#62. Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.
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#63. Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.
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#64. It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.
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#65. If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.
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#66. 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.
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#67. Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.
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#68. 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.
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#69. I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.
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#70. How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!
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#71. I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late.
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#72. I am impatient with directors who don't know what they want, and the way you don't know what they want is because they want to do one more. "Let's do one more." So, "What for?" I guarantee you there's not going to be a change.
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#73. 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.
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#74. The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.
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#75. I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
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#76. 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.
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#77. If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn how to cut open somebody's scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else.
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#78. 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.
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#79. That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
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#80. If we don't save the oceans, if we don't do something about what we're doing to the oceans, as well as the planet at large, we're going to be really sorry.
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#81. I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
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#82. Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.
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#83. 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.
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#84. Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing.
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#85. Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.
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#86. 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.
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#87. Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.
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#88. We are turning everything on this planet into food for humans. We'll eat it and, if we can't eat it, we'll kill it and take its place and just move it out of the way.
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#89. Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.
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#90. Working on stage is really a great voice developer.
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#91. 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.
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#92. Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of
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#93. The main thing about awards in movies is that they can serve as an economic surge for the film. If you're movie gets nominated for any award it does it a big favour. People might go and see it again ... they won't give up on it.
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#94. I would never complain that Hollywood is racist when I'm one of the people touted as a welcome entity there.
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#95. The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit.
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#96. Nobody is trying to save energy. We're trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts.
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#97. I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.
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#98. If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.
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#99. Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
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#100. It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
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