Morgan Freeman Quotes

I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

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• To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  

  Irving Wallace
  • Easy
  • Self
  • Conformity

• It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Nature
  • Right
  • Been

• I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Theatre
  • Wonderful
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• A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • High
  • Hope

• I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Breakfast

• I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Women
  • Love

• I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • Sports
  • My Life

• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • World
  • True
  • Friend

• Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Night

• By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Nature
  • Person
  • Optimistic

• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
  • Unique
  • Trump

• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Start
  • Difficulty
  • Ordeal

• While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • American
  • War
  • Soldiers

• Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Mind
  • You
  • Repetition

• Writing is the supreme solace.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Communication

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.

  

  Chellie Pingree

• I remember telling the head of Warner Brothers that if they'd just make a video for 'Ol' Red'... and if it didn't work, they could drop me from the label.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Red

• I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, 'I'm not young and fabulous anymore.' But, immediately, there was a voice that said, 'No, you can be older and fabulous.' In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Words

• Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Great
  • Different
  • Culture

• I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.

  

  David Autor
  • Work
  • Light
  • Blue

• I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Work
  • School
  • Technique