Morgan Freeman Quotes
It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.
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The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
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I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.
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Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.
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Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?
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For me, healthy eating and exercising is something I work on constantly. I'm not the most disciplined dieter. I try to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but sometimes late at night I tend to have fast-food meals - and that's where I get myself into trouble! So I'm not in the best shape I could be, but I'm still healthy and comfy.
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Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.
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Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.
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It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
