Morgan Freeman Quotes
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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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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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That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
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We are turning everything on this planet into food for humans. We'll eat it and, if we can't eat it, we'll kill it and take its place and just move it out of the way.
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People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
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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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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.
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Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
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I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.
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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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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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If you're comfortable on a horse, you're comfortable on a horse. It's like being on a motorbike.
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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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There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
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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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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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You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.
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So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.
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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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I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me."
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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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All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.
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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 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.