Morgan Freeman Quotes
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Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.
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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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What I haven't talked about I don't intend to talk about.
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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'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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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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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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If we don't save the oceans, if we don't do something about what we're doing to the oceans, as well as the planet at large, we're going to be really sorry.
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How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
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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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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 was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.
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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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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 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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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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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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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.
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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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The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit.
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Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.
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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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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.