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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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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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.
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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.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.
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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.
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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
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They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day.
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Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
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Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.
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Honor your daughters. They are honorable.
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I think it's really important to live in the moment.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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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.
