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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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.

Morgan Freeman

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

Morgan Freeman

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

Morgan Freeman

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.

Morgan Freeman

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.

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's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

Morgan Freeman

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

Morgan Freeman

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.

Morgan Freeman

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.

Morgan Freeman

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

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.

Morgan Freeman

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

Morgan Freeman

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, y...

Morgan Freeman

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Morgan Freeman

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Morgan Freeman

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.

Morgan Freeman

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

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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