Morgan Freeman Quotes

Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.

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• Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Someone

• There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Fighting
  • Hurt

• A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Years

• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Evidence
  • Absence

• My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Live
  • Man
  • Perfect

• Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Sometimes

• Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Opportunities
  • Rejection

• I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Riding

• Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Words

• 'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Done
  • Think
  • Popular

• Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Culture
  • You
  • Chinese

• I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • America
  • Political
  • Strong

• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Age
  • Memories
  • Old Age

• To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, who perhaps shout 'Tottigol,' I'd like to think that, for you, my career has become a fairytale for you to pass on.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Up
  • Children
  • Today

• If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Why
  • Problem
  • Difficult

• The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Time
  • Intelligent
  • Obsession

• People say, 'You look like the girl who used to be on that show 'Angel' - they don't actually think I'm her.

  

  Amy Acker
  • People
  • Girl
  • Angel

• But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

  

  Eugene Field
  • Night
  • Lord
  • Bless

• An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

  

  Ice T
  • Control
  • Party
  • Rock

• I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.

  

  Cheryl Mendelson
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Trying

• 'Rozabal' was theological while 'Chanakya' is political. Unlike 'Rozabal,' which was about research, the aim of 'Chanakya' is plot, plot, plot, which carries the character. The common DNA, of course, is history.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Character
  • History
  • Political

• I very much wanted the perfect nuclear family, and I came from the perfect nuclear family, but like so many people, that isn't the way things have worked out.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Perfect
  • Worked Out
  • Nuclear Family

• Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Comedy
  • Material