Morgan Freeman Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Work

• 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

• 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

  Topics in Life

• 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

  Topics in Life

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

  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

• 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

  Topics in Love

• I gravitate towards gravitas.

  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

  Topics in Business

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

  Morgan Freeman

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Tags in Always

• Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

  Morgan Freeman

  Tags in American

• 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

  Topics in Life

• Black history is American history.

  Morgan Freeman

  Topics in History

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

  Morgan Freeman

  Topics in Business

• And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they’re going to go and see the story you’re in.

  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

  Topics in Life

• I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be. 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

  Topics in Age, Funny

Morgan Freeman (58)

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

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