Morgan Freeman Quotes
- All Quotes
-
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.
-
Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.
-
If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.
-
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.
-
If you're comfortable on a horse, you're comfortable on a horse. It's like being on a motorbike.
-
I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.
-
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.
-
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.
-
That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
-
You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.
-
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.
-
I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.
-
I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.
-
Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
-
Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.
-
Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty...
-
All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.
-
People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
-
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.
-
Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.
-
Nobody is trying to save energy. We're trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts.