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I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.
Morgan Freeman -
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.
Morgan Freeman
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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.
Morgan Freeman -
That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.
Morgan Freeman -
You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.
Morgan Freeman -
Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.
Morgan Freeman -
Marketing only really works with word of mouth.
Morgan Freeman -
Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.
Morgan Freeman
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Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.
Morgan Freeman -
Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.
Morgan Freeman -
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!'
Morgan Freeman -
I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was very violent. But a fabulous story, a fabulous movie, very well done. So that and two or three other projects of his that I've seen, I just thought if I had a shot to work with him I wanted to do it.
Morgan Freeman -
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.
Morgan Freeman -
You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.
Morgan Freeman
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People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
Morgan Freeman -
I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.
Morgan Freeman -
Even through my good-looking youth, I wasn't called on for any romantic parts, which is okay. What I was called on to do, I enjoyed doing. The funny thing about life is that if you live long enough, I think, you'll get every wish you ever had. It'll all come true.
Morgan Freeman -
That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
Morgan Freeman -
We are turning everything on this planet into food for humans. We'll eat it and, if we can't eat it, we'll kill it and take its place and just move it out of the way.
Morgan Freeman -
In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.
Morgan Freeman
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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.
Morgan Freeman -
If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space.
Morgan Freeman -
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.
Morgan Freeman -
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.
Morgan Freeman