Morgan Freeman Quotes

If I stay at home, I'm not famous. I'm only famous when I'm out in the streets, so I don't go out on the streets much. ~ Morgan Freeman

You're going to relegate my history to a month. ~ Morgan Freeman

That's really just the worst part of life really, you get bracketed somewhere and the next thing you know people are saying, 'No. No. That's not the type. Get me so and so.' I'm not a type. I'm an actor. ~ 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

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

When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that - fantasies. ~ Morgan Freeman

In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that. ~ Morgan Freeman

Never pay for what you steal ~ Morgan Freeman

Your job is always the same if it's a juggernaut or if it's just one of these little jewels of a film that's gonna wind up at the Laemmle or something, so your job doesn't change whatsoever ... give it your best shot. ~ Morgan Freeman

Seeing is believing, but is it truth? Depends on your point-of-view. Are you listening, horsemen? When you emerge, and you will, I will be there... waiting. Because mark my words, you will get what's coming to you... in ways you can't expect... but very much deserve. Because once thing I believe in is an eye for an eye. ~ Morgan Freeman

I would love to work with Morgan Freeman. I love him. ~ Stephanie Sigman

They're making a movie about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, called 'Southside With You,' and the producers say they've already cast someone to play young Barack Obama. Now, I'm not saying the president has aged a lot but that young actor is Morgan Freeman. ~ Jimmy Fallon

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 always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those things, the way your career is unfolding and all the talk about gravitas etc etc, so I had a strong feeling that someone was going to offer me the part of God. I was totally prepared to say, 'Thanks but no thanks,' unless it was a comedy. ~ Morgan Freeman

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

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling. ~ Morgan Freeman

Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is. ~ Morgan Freeman

I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters. ~ Morgan Freeman

You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting. ~ Morgan Freeman

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants. ~ 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

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices. ~ 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

It's just the stupidest law possible ... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of dollars trying to fight a war we can't win! We could make zillions, just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. It's stupid. ~ Morgan Freeman

They're talking about kids who have grand mal seizures, and they've discovered that marijuana eases that down to where these children can have a life. That right there, to me, says, 'Legalize it across the board!' ~ Morgan Freeman

It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other. ~ Morgan Freeman

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth. ~ Morgan Freeman

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. ~ Morgan Freeman

I understand that when Gary Oldman was in that suit [Batman], sweat would just drip off of him where they had to have holes in the gloves or something. ~ Morgan Freeman

If I could narrate your life I would , especially Jose's. ~ Morgan Freeman

You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it. ~ Morgan Freeman

If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space. ~ Morgan Freeman

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

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you. ~ Morgan Freeman

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

What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I'd like to get done. ~ Morgan Freeman

I find it difficult to watch myself ... I find it boring. ~ Morgan Freeman

I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to. ~ Morgan Freeman

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

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

Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be. ~ Morgan Freeman

I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife. ~ Morgan Freeman

If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle ~ Morgan Freeman

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them. ~ Morgan Freeman

All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything. ~ Morgan Freeman

Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic. ~ Morgan Freeman

The main thing about awards in movies is that they can serve as an economic surge for the film. If you're movie gets nominated for any award it does it a big favour. People might go and see it again ... they won't give up on it. ~ Morgan Freeman

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film. ~ Morgan Freeman

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. ~ Morgan Freeman

I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather. ~ Morgan Freeman

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

I thought, "why don't we be innovative and create something nobody had ever done before?" It was a huge hit and we immediately did a sequel with Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner and Maya Angelou. ~ Henry Louis Gates

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'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff. ~ Morgan Freeman

If we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts. I think we should be developing every kind of alternative fuel that is available to us. That includes hydrogen to soybeans, from solar to wind. Whatever we can find that is going to help us clean up the environment we should be working really hard on developing. ~ Morgan Freeman

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

Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always. ~ Morgan Freeman

As long as you feel like a victim, you are one. ~ Morgan Freeman

Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of ~ Morgan Freeman

Your best posture is your next posture. ~ Morgan Freeman

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means. ~ Morgan Freeman

Obviously, when you walk into a room and see people like Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman and Charles Martin Smith behind the camera, it's big time. You just try not to think about it, try and keep up, hold on for the ride. ~ Austin Stowell

Adopting the language of a pretense only serves to ease participation in it. ~ Bartok, Last Knights

It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work. ~ Morgan Freeman

If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others. ~ Morgan Freeman

There's so much technology [in the Batman movies] that's unbelievable and seems unreal, so it's hard trying to get the audience to believe that it all exists. So we got Morgan Freeman to tell them that it's real. And that is why Christopher Nolan is a genius. ~ Michael Uslan

You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?' ~ 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

If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything. ~ Morgan Freeman

When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern. ~ Morgan Freeman

Nobody is trying to save energy. We're trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts. ~ 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, you start getting antsy. ~ Morgan Freeman

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando. ~ Orlando Jones

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people. ~ 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

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was ... I always wanted to be a movie actor. ~ Morgan Freeman

A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife. ~ William H. Macy

Rob [Reiner] is a teddy bear. He's hell delicious. He's a really good director. He's a great soul. In the movie business, I would call him a movie mom. The only person I hold in equal esteem is Clint Eastwood. Now I have worked with a lot of terrific directors, and I don't mean to be putting any of them below their own station, but these two, I relish working with them. ~ 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 going to go and see the story you're in. ~ Morgan Freeman

Audiences believe what you believe. It's a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you've got no choice. None at all. ~ Morgan Freeman

I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents. ~ Morgan Freeman

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve
a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind. ~ Morgan Freeman

Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence. ~ Morgan Freeman

When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready. ~ 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

I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded. ~ Morgan Freeman

I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people. ~ Morgan Freeman

I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter. ~ Morgan Freeman

If we say, 'Oh, my goodness ... we think we've found another Earthlike planet,' we will start trying to figure out how to get there. And I have this strong belief that whatever we think we can do, whatever we can dream, we can do. ~ Morgan Freeman

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty ~ Morgan Freeman

One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God? ~ Morgan Freeman

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

Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing. ~ Morgan Freeman

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort. ~ Morgan Freeman

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it. ~ Morgan Freeman

If you're comfortable on a horse, you're comfortable on a horse. It's like being on a motorbike. ~ Morgan Freeman

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable. ~ Morgan Freeman

There are things that I would like to do, but I make a big distinction between liking to do something and wanting to do something. If there's something that I want to do I've done it. If there's something that comes up that I want to do I will do it. ~ Morgan Freeman

There is no such thing as homophobia. It is not a fear. It is you being an asshole. ~ Morgan Freeman

One day very soon, we'll be asked: what did we do. And we will say: we did everything we could ... we have to ... because if we don't there won't be anyone left to ask. We have never faced a crisis this big, that we have never had better ideas to solve. This is our only home. We can choose today to make a world of difference. ~ Morgan Freeman