Morgan Freeman Quotes:
Morgan Freeman
I don’t get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
Morgan Freeman
When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God’s gift to the theater.
Morgan Freeman
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I’d discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
Morgan Freeman
The accident was a horrible thing – but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It’s a happy irony if there is such a thing. I’m proud to have known him.
Morgan Freeman
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.
Morgan Freeman
People say it’s a movie about boxing, but… I don’t agree at all. I don’t think it’s a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It’s just a stage where this is played out.
Morgan Freeman
People hear that and say I’m being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I’m doing and what I’m doing is channeling.
Morgan Freeman
Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles – it’s a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
Morgan Freeman
My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn’t live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.
Morgan Freeman
My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don’t get it, I can’t do it.
Morgan Freeman
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.
Morgan Freeman
Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it’s a title. Don’t go around asking executive producers what they do because they don’t do anything, alright?
Morgan Freeman
Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.
Morgan Freeman
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.
Morgan Freeman
Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.
Morgan Freeman