Morgan Freeman Quotes
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The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president.
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Your best posture is your next posture.
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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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How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
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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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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.
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Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything.
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Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.
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This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.
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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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Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.
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Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.
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It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.
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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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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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I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.
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I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
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I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.
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These walls are funny. First you hate them, then you get used to them. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.
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My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.
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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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"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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If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space.