Morgan Freeman Quotes
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Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?
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There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.
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If you're comfortable on a horse, you're comfortable on a horse. It's like being on a motorbike.
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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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If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space.
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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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Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.
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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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I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
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Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words that were written on the page, and you have to make your marks. That's the work.
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If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.
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It's just the stupidest law possible... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of dollars trying to fight a war we can't win! We could make zillions, just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. It's stupid.
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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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People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
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You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.
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As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
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Marketing only really works with word of mouth.
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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 think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out.
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I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.
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I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.
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What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I'd like to get done.
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Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty...
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I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.