Morgan Freeman Quotes
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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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When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
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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 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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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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Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.
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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 find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.
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I never think about awards or anything like that when I do a job. I was first named a best actor when I was 12 years old and it doesn't really mean anything when you get down to it, because there is no best. I don't get all that involved. My chest puffs up as much as I can puff it up but I am not trying to be better than the person I am acting with. I am trying to be at least as good. That's how it works.
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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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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're comfortable on a horse, you're comfortable on a horse. It's like being on a motorbike.
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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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Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.
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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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You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you've got a writer who's clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.
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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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Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
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You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.
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That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
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People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
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I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
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All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.