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Morgan Freeman
Quotes by Morgan Freeman
Quotes by Morgan Freeman
“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.”
Morgan Freeman
“Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.”
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“Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.”
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“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.”
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“I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.”
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“Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.”
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“Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.”
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“The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.”
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“I gravitate towards gravitas.”
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“Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.”
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“Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.”
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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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“But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.”
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“I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.”
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“And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.”
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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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“Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.”
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“I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.”
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“I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.”
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“It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.”
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“It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.”
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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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“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 don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.”
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“I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.”
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“If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.”
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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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“When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.”
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“As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.”
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“I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.”
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