Morgan Freeman Quotes
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From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.
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I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.
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Somebody once said to me after I'd done "Deep Impact," "What is it like to play a Black president," and I said, "I didn't play a Black president. I played a president. I just happened to be Black. There's a difference.
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Rob Reiner is a teddy bear. He's hell delicious. He's a really good director. He's a great soul. In the movie business, I would call him a movie mom. The only person I hold in equal esteem is Clint Eastwood. Now I have worked with a lot of terrific directors, and I don't mean to be putting any of them below their own station, but these two, I relish working with them.
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If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.
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That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.
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My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.
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I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.
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Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
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If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
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The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
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When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
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So we say, oh, my goodness; we think we've found another Earth-like planet. We will start trying to figure out how to get there. And I have this strong belief that whatever we think we can do, whatever we can dream, we can do.
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I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.
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I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
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I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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I am God. So it’s easy to play him. They say God is in all things. So if God is in me, then I am in God. Therefore, I am God. God does not exist without me.
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If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.
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Never give up the ganja.
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One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?
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But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.
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When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready.