Morgan Freeman Quotes

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.

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• I want to continue to be me and share with people.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Great
  • Country
  • Trust

• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Day

• If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?

  

  Dan Malloy
  • Good
  • Job
  • Pretty

• It's not my ambition to be a big star.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Star
  • Ambition
  • Big

• Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Small

• I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Boy
  • Head
  • Group

• A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Great
  • Win
  • Movies

• I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Garden

• Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Film

• When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Character
  • Play
  • Look

• Dubbed as a Knight of the Order of Saint Sebastian, I espoused the cause of pure colour, which has been invaded by guile, occupied and oppressed in cowardly fashion by line and its manifestation; drawing in Art. I aimed to defend and deliver it, and lead it to triumph and final glory.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Drawing

• It started when i heard your song of love Pouring down like honey from above I started to spin, i started to move Just like a needle that is sticking through the same old groove

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Song

• Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests at least equally important and equally deserving the considerations of Congress.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • Important
  • Single
  • Wise

• Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Experience

• I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• I would never cancel a tour unless I had real reasons and personal things that require my undivided attention.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Real
  • Attention

• But if too many countries, as has been the case, interfere too much in the internal affairs, the political situation of Afghanistan, then of course we can't hope satisfactory results.

  

  Bulent Ecevit
  • Hope
  • Political

• To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Giving

• I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so I like kitten heels occasionally because I can move around a bit easier, but pointy-toed pumps are very elongating.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds

• I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Book
  • True
  • Me

• Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of.

  

  George Clooney
  • Character
  • Proud
  • Actors

• 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
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Roles