Quotes

“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

“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

“I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.” 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

“Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.” Morgan Freeman

“Black history is American history.” 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.” Morgan Freeman

“The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.” Morgan Freeman

“I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh.” Morgan Freeman

“I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.” Morgan Freeman

“People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.” Morgan Freeman

“This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.” Morgan Freeman

“You're going to relegate my history to a month.” Morgan Freeman

“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

“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

“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

“It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.” Morgan Freeman

“I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.” 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

“When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.” Morgan Freeman

“I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.” Morgan Freeman

“I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.” 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

“Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.” Morgan Freeman

“And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.” Morgan Freeman

“I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.” Morgan Freeman

“Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.” Jeff Bridges

“There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.” Jeff Bridges

“I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.” Jeff Bridges

“You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.” Jeff Bridges