Morgan Freeman Quotes

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

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• I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • People
  • Book
  • Want

• I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Think
  • Authority
  • Brains

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

  

  Larry Elder
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Care
  • Love Is

• A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Think
  • Language
  • Jazz

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Truth Is

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Know
  • Understand

• Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Judge
  • Characters
  • Well

• Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • Water
  • Building
  • Development

• Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • People
  • Good
  • Food

• They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Him

• Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Courage
  • Acting

• Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Succeed
  • Many
  • Depend

• Character drives the story, and the story drives the book. I don't think about where the action should go, or how much there should be, until it's required by the characters. When I find myself adding conflict just because I'm afraid that the reader might get bored, I know I've taken a wrong turn somewhere.

  

  Nick Petrie
  • Character
  • Action
  • Story

• The goal was to create a mood, an atmosphere, and I think we have achieved that. We wanted people to not only get in touch with this character but also with themselves in Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail.

  

  Evan Jacobs
  • Character
  • Goal
  • Mood

• There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

  

  Gabe Paul
  • You
  • Place
  • Second Place

• When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a success or a flop, when it comes to the box office.

  

  Milos Forman
  • Audience
  • Office

• Looking at her, I thought again how beautiful she was - even in jeans and a T-shirt, no makeup, she was breathtaking. So much so that it was hard to believe she could ever have looked at herself and seen anything else.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Makeup

• I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Story
  • Mood