Morgan Freeman Quotes

Playing is no challenge; every time that you get a role you get to go play with other people in the sandbox and so there is no challenge, real challenge. The challenge, the major challenge is getting the work, finding the sandbox.

Morgan Freeman

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• A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Great
  • Different
  • Society

• Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Work
  • Business
  • Trust

• I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Children
  • Soul
  • Evil

• My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Home
  • Mother

• During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Future
  • Privilege
  • Citizen

• Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Substitute

• I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Parents
  • Freedom

• It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I am the kind of person who is happy to be doing work. When I miss a 'Brahmotsavam' or an 'Autonagar Surya', I feel bad for a day, and that's all. I don't want to name the films I have missed, but it's true that those which I missed didn't do well.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Bad
  • True

• Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Heart
  • Poets
  • Hold

• I love twins stories.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Stories
  • I Love
  • Twins

• There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • New

• The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Great
  • Children
  • Fun

• I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Wise

• We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • God
  • Past
  • Forgiveness

• I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • Always

• It's not easy for a film to tell a story of the experiences of an entire society. However, from an individual's perspective, it is possible to tell one aspect of an entire society's story.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • Society
  • Perspective

• I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Writing
  • Home

• It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Love
  • Character
  • Fun

• I can't anticipate what's going to happen to me next, but I'd like to think that I'm going to lead a life that's not really memoir-worthy, and that would be fine!

  

  Dave Itzkoff
  • Life

• People don't make albums any more. It's always about singles. I wanted to take that old-school approach.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • School
  • Approach

• Playing is no challenge; every time that you get a role you get to go play with other people in the sandbox and so there is no challenge, real challenge. The challenge, the major challenge is getting the work, finding the sandbox.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Sandbox