Morgan Freeman Quotes
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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.
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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'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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How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
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If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.
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I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.
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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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If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space.
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I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.
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Which lady would I like to meet? Um, I don't know that there's anybody left that I didn't meet. But the one that I really wanted to meet died and that was Princess Diana. I really wanted to get to know her. I like her.
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Marketing only really works with word of mouth.
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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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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 like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
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Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, 'Well, I'm tired of climbing this hill. I'm never going to get to the top.' And you're only two steps from the top.
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You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.
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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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I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.
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I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.
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It love about acting is all about role playing – the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.
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I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.
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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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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.