Morgan Freeman Quotes
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I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.
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Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.
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From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.
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Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.
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"You are the actor, and I understand we already had our sit down, you explained your concept, your view," so I said, "Okay, I'm in your hands." That means that if you've got to nudge me a little bit to the right I move to the right, just from the pressure, weight, but you won't have to touch me at all. You can come and go "Okay, you want me over here a little bit more," so no pressure on us at all that's easy to do.
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The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit.
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What I haven't talked about I don't intend to talk about.
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Never give up the ganja.
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I'm married, I've been married to the same woman for - well, I've been with the same woman for close to...long enough to fool around.
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Playing is no challenge; every time that you get a role you get to go play with other people in the sandbox and so there is no challenge, real challenge. The challenge, the major challenge is getting the work, finding the sandbox.
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A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'
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It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work.
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The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.
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I never think about awards or anything like that when I do a job. I was first named a best actor when I was 12 years old and it doesn't really mean anything when you get down to it, because there is no best. I don't get all that involved. My chest puffs up as much as I can puff it up but I am not trying to be better than the person I am acting with. I am trying to be at least as good. That's how it works.
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Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.
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They're talking about kids who have grand mal seizures, and they've discovered that marijuana eases that down to where these children can have a life. That right there, to me, says, 'Legalize it across the board!'
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As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
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I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out.
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I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
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How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
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Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.
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If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.
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Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.
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I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those things, the way your career is unfolding and all the talk about gravitas etc etc, so I had a strong feeling that someone was going to offer me the part of God. I was totally prepared to say, 'Thanks but no thanks,' unless it was a comedy.