Morgan Freeman Quotes
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You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.
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In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe.
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Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.
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Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.
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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.
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Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
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I can remember when I first got to los Angeles . I didn't have a car, I didn't have any money. I was walking the streets, you know, trying to get from place to place on foot almost. Sometimes, you know, you say, how am I ever going to get from here to there? There are a lot of people still having that dream and not being able to get there. So you never know. The idea is to keep on tap dancing, though.
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You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.
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Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.
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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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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.
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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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Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.
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Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.
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I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama. I read his books. He is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. He's proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. The things that he's managed to get accomplished in the face of so much push-back is amazing, and I think - this is Morgan Freeman's personal thought - we're going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't reelect him, because the people on the other side of the fence scare me.
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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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I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.
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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.
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It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
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I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.
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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.
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I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.
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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 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.