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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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

  

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• Writing is the supreme solace.

  

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

  

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• I came to L.A. for pilot season, and it was so brutal. So brutal. But still, I just want to be making forward progress. There's lots of ideas about being a superstar. But my idea of being a superstar is just going forward and having new challenges and trying out new things.

  

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• When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father. Now I was going to school in West Germany, which was American-occupied at that time. There in school, all children were required to learn English and not Russian. To learn Russian had been difficult, but English was impossible for me.

  

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• The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

  

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• 'Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary,' murmured Psmith. (Earlier usage of the precise words 'Elementary, my dear Watson' has been found in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.)

  

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• Architecture is the work of nations.

  

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• 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