Morgan Freeman Quotes
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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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Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.
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And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.
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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.
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Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.
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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.
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Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.
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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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I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.
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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.
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I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet 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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
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Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.
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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.