Quotes By Morgan Freeman

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.

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.

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

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

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.

I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh.

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.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

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.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

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.

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.

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

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.

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.

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.

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

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.

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.

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.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

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.

I gravitate towards gravitas.

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

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.