Morgan Freeman Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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 you want to see a miracle, be the miracle....
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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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I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out.
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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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Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.
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I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.
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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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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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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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You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.
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Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
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Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.
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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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Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.
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People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
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All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.
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A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they said, "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine.
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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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Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.