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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• 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.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• 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.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Life
  • House

• I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Long
  • Career
  • Golf

• Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Great
  • Support
  • Comedy

• Science is about unravelling nature.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Nature
  • Science
  • About

• We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• 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.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Child
  • Parent
  • Constitution

• I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Know
  • Lady
  • Seen

• Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fun
  • Lose
  • Losing

• Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • Action
  • Fall

• 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'.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Good
  • Past
  • Best

• I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Remember
  • Summer
  • Bravery

• While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • America
  • Man
  • Gay

• 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.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • English
  • Blonde

• 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.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Children
  • You
  • Respect

• I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Long
  • Kids

• Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Real

• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Distance

• Success is the result of hard work.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Work
  • Success
  • Result

• We used to get arrested every other week - that is, the old man would get arrested.

  

  Buster Keaton

• It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Stillness