Morgan Freeman Quotes
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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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If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle....
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Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty...
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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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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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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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These walls are funny. First you hate them, then you get used to them. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.
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The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment.
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You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.
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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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All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.
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You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.
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In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe.
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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.
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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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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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Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.
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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 think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.
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I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
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I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me."
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So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.