Words matter. These are the best Morgan Freeman Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I find it difficult to watch myself… I find it boring.
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.
It’s sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.
I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
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 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.
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.
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I’d discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
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.
I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.
People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
You’re going to relegate my history to a month.
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.
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.
People hear that and say I’m being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I’m doing and what I’m doing is channeling.
People say it’s a movie about boxing, but… I don’t agree at all. I don’t think it’s a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It’s just a stage where this is played out.
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.
Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what’s going to happen.
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.
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.
When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God’s gift to the theater.
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.
Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.
It’s what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That’s all and that’s the hardest thing.
This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.
