Morgan Freeman Quotes
That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I would love to work on a Bond film.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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I was a manicurist in another life.
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Even if you start your laundry before 8 AM on Saturday, you will not finish folding it until after midnight on Sunday.
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I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.
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On a smash TV series, you make much more money than you ever can in a movie. Do you know how much more Bill Cosby will make than Spielberg? The money for successful television is unbelievable.
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Acting is a very strange job.
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That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
