Morgan Freeman Quotes
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I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
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I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.
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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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If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle....
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People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
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You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
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I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.
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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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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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So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.
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You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.
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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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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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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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Ive got a lot of life left in me and I want to live it doing things I like to do.
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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.