Morgan Freeman Quotes

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

Morgan Freeman

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• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Age
  • Free
  • Me

• I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Ambitious
  • Monstrosity

• 'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Seems
  • Ambitious
  • Tone

• I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Passionate

• Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Technology
  • Design
  • Ambitious

• If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Improvement

• The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Ambitious

• You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Ambitious
  • Bounds
  • Reasonable

• This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, medicine, and psychology. The Blind Spot breaks new ground, and represents a major step forward in the philosophy of science. The book is also a page-turner, which is rare for this topic.

  

  Joseph Auslander
  • Book
  • Literature
  • Philosophy

• Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Challenges

• The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Power
  • inspirational

• I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Dreams
  • Ambitious
  • Caesar

• Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Married

• No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Fingers
  • Ambitious

• You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Achieve
  • Misery
  • Ambitious

• Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Film
  • Ambitious
  • Milk

• I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Moment
  • Ambitious

• It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don't really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I'm here. I'm not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.

  

  Sean Lennon
  • Life
  • Today
  • Nice

• If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such a mixed population and so densely populated, and it stays up for a full week and doesn't get covered up by something else or pulled down, you will have fifty thousand people who will have seen it. It will be the poorest of the poor - some homeless man who lives on the street will see it and probably appreciate it, or some businessman or landlord will see it. Everyone will see it. And whether or not they even realize that they saw it, on some level it's affecting their consciousness.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • New York
  • Consciousness
  • Population

• While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and coul the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Hope
  • Blessings
  • Victories

• Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?

  

  David Markson
  • Book
  • Read
  • Interests

• The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

  

  Ernie Isley The Isley Brothers
  • Music
  • Greek
  • Mythology

• I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Stage
  • Sides
  • Likes

• I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Ambitious
  • Movie actor