Morgan Freeman Quotes
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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I always wanted to be an ambassador.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.
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I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
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If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
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I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
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When I first saw 'House on Haunted Hill' as a kid in Baltimore, and the skeleton went out on the wire, and the thousand kids in the audience went crazy... My whole life, I've tried to at least equal that cinema anarchy. I came close with the end of 'Pink Flamingos,' but I didn't tie with it.
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Some journalists are pestier than others, so I find out where the pests are. I am careful with my actors and actresses. I come back and tell them, 'Watch out for this one or that one.' People are surprised I do that. But I watch out for them even after the movie is over.
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Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.
