Morgan Freeman Quotes

• Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn’t appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can’t see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

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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.

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• 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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• The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

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• 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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• It’s sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

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• I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.

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• You’re going to relegate my history to a month.

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

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

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• 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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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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• 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.

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• Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

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• 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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• Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

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

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• Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

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Morgan Freeman (58)

Birth:	1st June, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director

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