Quotes by Morgan Freeman

About Morgan Freeman:

Morgan Freeman is an American actor, film director, and narrator. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus, and won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including Unforgiven, Glory, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Seven, Deep Impact, The Sum of All Fears, Bruce Almighty, Along Came a Spider, The Dark Knight Trilogy, March of the Penguins, The Lego Movie, and Lucy. He is known for his distinctively smooth, deep voice. He got his first break as part of the cast of The Electric Company.
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I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.

Morgan Freeman

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

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?

Morgan Freeman

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.

Morgan Freeman

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.

Morgan Freeman

I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're go...

Morgan Freeman

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.

Morgan Freeman

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.

Morgan Freeman

Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.

Morgan Freeman

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

Morgan Freeman

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.

Morgan Freeman

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

Morgan Freeman

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Morgan Freeman

Black history is American history.

Morgan Freeman

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

Morgan Freeman

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.

Morgan Freeman

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.

Morgan Freeman

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

Morgan Freeman

And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

Morgan Freeman

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.

Morgan Freeman

Author Bio

  • NameMorgan Freeman
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, film director, and narrator
  • BornJune 1, 1937
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Producer; Actor; Television Actor; Film Actor; Film Director; Aviator
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Supporting Actor