Top 100 Quotes About Morgan Freeman
#1. They're making a movie about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, called 'Southside With You,' and the producers say they've already cast someone to play young Barack Obama. Now, I'm not saying the president has aged a lot but that young actor is Morgan Freeman.
Jimmy Fallon
#2. In 1994, nobody could have predicted 'Shawshank' would one day be an iconic movie - and believe me, that would never have happened if Danny Glover had been Red instead of Morgan Freeman.
Bill Simmons
#3. I love men that love women. Morgan Freeman, who I worked with on 'RED,' was very flattering to me. But he is flattering to all women. He is a woman-charmer.
Helen Mirren
#4. Kindness in thinking or giving, creates profoundness and happiness. Kindness in saying creates an everlasting love- Morgan Freeman
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#5. I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.
Nathan Gamble
#6. A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.
William H. Macy
#7. There's so much technology [in the Batman movies] that's unbelievable and seems unreal, so it's hard trying to get the audience to believe that it all exists. So we got Morgan Freeman to tell them that it's real. And that is why Christopher Nolan is a genius.
Michael Uslan
#8. Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.
Jim Carrey
#9. 99.9% of the time, the people we see worked for it. People like Morgan Freeman and Harry Connick, Jr. work every day to continue the status that they have.
Austin Stowell
#11. Obviously, when you walk into a room and see people like Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman and Charles Martin Smith behind the camera, it's big time. You just try not to think about it, try and keep up, hold on for the ride.
Austin Stowell
#12. When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You've just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like Morgan [Freeman] says, it's a pat on the back, so great you'll take it and then move on.
Clint Eastwood
#13. You know, I remember watching Morgan Freeman when he did the two Alex Cross movies, and he's so confident that he's going to knock the scene dead. And I'm really confident that I can tell a good story now, so I just don't worry about things.
James Patterson
#14. I remember years ago being on the set of 'Dreamcatcher' and not only did I have such great admiration for Morgan Freeman and was just thrilled to be around him, I was struck by the fact that he seemed to be having perhaps more fun than I was at his job. And I thought, 'Well, that's very promising.'
Timothy Olyphant
#15. Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.
Orlando Jones
#16. I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.
Kevin Spacey
#17. You don't try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That's Morgan Freeman!
Tyler Perry
#19. I've always kinda wanted to work with Morgan Freeman, Tom Cruise, and people like that. Probably Will Smith, too.
Cayden Boyd
#20. I thought, "why don't we be innovative and create something nobody had ever done before?" It was a huge hit and we immediately did a sequel with Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner and Maya Angelou.
Henry Louis Gates
#21. Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
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#22. Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.
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#23. I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to.
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#24. I don't know what my favorite film of mine is ... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.
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#26. What I haven't talked about I don't intend to talk about.
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#27. Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.
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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. I'm a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it's supposed to.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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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#33. If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.
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#34. The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.
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#35. 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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#36. 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.
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#37. 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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#38. 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.
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#39. There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
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#40. Which lady would I like to meet? Um, I don't know that there's anybody left that I didn't meet. But the one that I really wanted to meet died and that was Princess Diana. I really wanted to get to know her. I like her.
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#41. I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.
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#42. Somebody once said to me after I'd done "Deep Impact," "What is it like to play a Black president," and I said, "I didn't play a Black president. I played a president. I just happened to be Black. There's a difference.
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#43. I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.
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#44. I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.
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#45. I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.
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#46. Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero
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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole,
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#50. 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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#51. You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?'
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#52. I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.
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#53. 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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#54. I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace.
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#55. 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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#56. You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you've got a writer who's clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.
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#57. 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.
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#58. If I could narrate your life I would , especially Jose's.
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#59. Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.
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#60. The trick to any profession is making it look easy.
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#61. 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.
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#63. 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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#64. 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.
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
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#68. Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.
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#69. 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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#70. I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me."
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#71. 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.
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#72. In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe.
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#73. 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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#74. 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.
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#75. I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.
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#76. Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible ... Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.
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#78. 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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#79. You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.
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#80. 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.
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#81. There are things that I would like to do, but I make a big distinction between liking to do something and wanting to do something. If there's something that I want to do I've done it. If there's something that comes up that I want to do I will do it.
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#82. 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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#83. 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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#85. All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.
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#86. I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.
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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. I'm easy going for the most part but sometimes in the morning if I didn't sleep well I can be kind of grumpy. But my grumpiness doesn't have that much to do with my dissatisfaction with my station in life.
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#90. From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.
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#91. 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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#93. 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.
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#94. If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space.
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#95. 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.
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#96. I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.
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#98. How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
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#99. 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.
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#100. 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.
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