Morgan Freeman Quotes

“I never said any of those quotes ...”

— Morgan Freeman

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

— Morgan Freeman

“If you want to see a miracle, Be a miracle.”

— Morgan Freeman

“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.”

— Morgan Freeman

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

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“I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.”

— Morgan Freeman

“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.”

— Morgan Freeman

“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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“I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh.”

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

— Morgan Freeman

“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.”

— Morgan Freeman

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

— Morgan Freeman

First thing that always pops into my head regarding our president is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him ... they just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white American, Kansas, middle of America. There was no argument about who he is or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president - he's America's first mixed-race president.

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

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Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.

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“Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.”

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“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.”

— Morgan Freeman

“If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle”

— Morgan Freeman

“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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They're talking about kids who have grand mal seizures, and they've discovered that marijuana eases that down to where these children can have a life. That right there, to me, says, 'Legalize it across the board!'

— Morgan Freeman

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

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“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.”

— Morgan Freeman

“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.”

— Morgan Freeman

“Freeman denied the claim that he was a "man of God", saying that "the question of faith is whatever you actually believe is. We take a lot of what we're talking about in science on faith; we posit a theory, and until it's dis-proven we have faith that it's true. If the mathematics work out, then it's true, until it's proven to be untrue.”

— Morgan Freeman

“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.”

— Morgan Freeman

“As the mask of deception falls off the face of humanity
Unveiling the grim reality of duality
In which everyone is a casualty, no one will be exempt
Truth has many shades
It's not a matter of black and white, but gray
Although many, we are one, so in the final analysis
Could it be that we are fighting a war that can't be won?”

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If we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts. I think we should be developing every kind of alternative fuel that is available to us. That includes hydrogen to soybeans, from solar to wind. Whatever we can find that is going to help us clean up the environment we should be working really hard on developing.

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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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“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.”

— Morgan Freeman

Turn on the news and see how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single 'victim' of Columbine?

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“Rob [Reiner] is a teddy bear. He's hell delicious. He's a really good director. He's a great soul. In the movie business, I would call him a movie mom. The only person I hold in equal esteem is Clint Eastwood. Now I have worked with a lot of terrific directors, and I don't mean to be putting any of them below their own station, but these two, I relish working with them.”

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“It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work.”

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I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out.

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“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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“I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.”

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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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“Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.”

— Morgan Freeman

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

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

— Morgan Freeman

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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“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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“What I haven't talked about I don't intend to talk about.”

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“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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“I like working with directors because I'm really opinionated about what things work and may not work, what audiences like and may not like, (not really) but I do have opinions about things. I like to be able to say them and then have them acted on. The director who responds to me like that, always gets my appreciation. I do appreciate it. What I find is the best directors, no matter what kind of name they have, are like that.”

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

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“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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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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Playing is no challenge; every time that you get a role you get to go play with other people in the sandbox and so there is no challenge, real challenge. The challenge, the major challenge is getting the work, finding the sandbox.

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“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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