Quotes By Morgan Freeman

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

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.

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.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.