Morgan Freeman Quotes
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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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If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn how to cut open somebody's scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else.
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Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.
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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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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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How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
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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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"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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I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.
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Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.
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Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.
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And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.
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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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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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What I haven't talked about I don't intend to talk about.
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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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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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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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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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I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.
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If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
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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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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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I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.