Morgan Freeman Quotes
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I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
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Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.
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Well, here’s a scientific question: Has anybody ever seen hard evidence? What we get is theories from our earlier prophets. Now, people who think that God invented us think that the Earth can’t be more than 6,000 years old. So I guess it’s a question of belief. My belief system doesn’t support a creator as such, as we can call God, who created us in His/Her/Its image.
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I gravitate towards gravitas.
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Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.
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I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.
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I'm a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it's supposed to.
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I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late.
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But I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am. I think what I got mostly from dance was carriage.
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...if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts. I think we should be developing every kind of alternative fuel that is available to us. That includes hydrogen to soybeans, from solar to wind. Whatever we can find that is going to help us clean up the environment we should be working really hard on developing.
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When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.
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Look at, look, the Tea Partiers, who are controlling the Republican Party....Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What's, what does that, what underlines that? 'Screw the country. We're going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we're going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here... It is a racist thing.
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The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.
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I don't think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears open. You do learn something from every outing, every time that you go for it. But for me what actors do is interact and that's why you have to do that.
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I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.
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In the harshest place on Earth, ... love finds a way.
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I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.
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I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.
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I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.
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I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get me to open my mouth. And put my foot in it if necessary. I think the only thing I do that gives me any bragging rights in terms of energy conservation is sailing. Just using wind power.
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I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.
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The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.
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I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.
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Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.