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?.. view
By: Morgan Freeman
I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it... view
By: Morgan Freeman
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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture... view
By: Morgan Freeman
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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero... view
By: 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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
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... view
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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
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... view
By: 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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
I gravitate towards gravitas... view
By: 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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance... view
By: Morgan Freeman
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... view
By: 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... view
By: 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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in... view
By: Morgan Freeman
People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies... view
By: Morgan Freeman
Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy... view
By: Morgan Freeman
I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring... view
By: 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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance... view
By: Morgan Freeman
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history... view
By: 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'... view
By: 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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy... view
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... view
By: 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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
You're going to relegate my history to a month... view
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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them... view
By: 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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help... view
By: Morgan Freeman
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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
Just that working with Clint again is like coming home... view
By: Morgan Freeman
When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater... view
By: Morgan Freeman
Black history is American history... view
By: Morgan Freeman
As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less... view
By: 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... view
By: Morgan Freeman
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