Morgan Freeman Quotes

“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

 

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

 

“Black history is American history.” 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

 

“Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.” Morgan Freeman

 

“Give me something interesting to play and I’m happy.” Morgan Freeman

 

“I am going to stop calling you a white man and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.” 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 don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.” 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

 

“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 like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.” 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

 

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

 

“Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.” Morgan Freeman

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

 

“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.” 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

 

“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

 

“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

 

“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.” 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

 

“The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.” 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 theatre.” Morgan Freeman