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Top 10 Morgan Freeman Quotes

  1. I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.
  2. I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.
  3. I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.
  4. How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
  5. Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.
  6. Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.
  7. Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people.
  8. How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!
  9. Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of
  10. Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.
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Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth. - Morgan Freeman

Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth. — Morgan Freeman

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people. - Morgan Freeman

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people. — Morgan Freeman

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it! - Morgan Freeman

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it! — Morgan Freeman

One thing that defines humans if we can imagine it, we can do it. - Morgan Freeman

One thing that defines humans if we can imagine it, we can do it. — Morgan Freeman

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

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

We humans are more concerned with having than with being. - Morgan Freeman

We humans are more concerned with having than with being. — Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman Short Quotes

  • Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.
  • One thing that defines humans if we can imagine it, we can do it.
  • I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
  • Never give up the ganja.
  • We humans are more concerned with having than with being.
  • Your best posture is your next posture.
  • Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
  • So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.
  • As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.
  • There is no such thing as homophobia. It is not a fear. It is you being an asshole.
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based  - Morgan Freeman
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.

Morgan Freeman Quotes About Life

You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?' — Morgan Freeman

If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here. — Morgan Freeman

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

One thing that defines humans: if we can imagine it, we can do it. - Morgan Freeman
One thing that defines humans: if we can imagine it, we can do it.

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. — Morgan Freeman

I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace. — Morgan Freeman

Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be. — Morgan Freeman

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit. - Morgan Freeman
The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

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

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

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. — Morgan Freeman

I'm easy going for the most part but sometimes in the morning if I didn't sleep well I can be kind of grumpy. But my grumpiness doesn't have that much to do with my dissatisfaction with my station in life. — Morgan Freeman

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Morgan Freeman Quotes About Love

It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it. — 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. — Morgan Freeman

You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it. — Morgan Freeman

In the harshest place on Earth, ... love finds a way. — Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman Quotes About People

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you. — Morgan Freeman

It's just the stupidest law possible... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of dollars trying to fight a war we can't win! We could make zillions, just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. It's stupid. — 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. — 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

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

Playing is no challenge; every time that you get a role you get to go play with other people in the sandbox and so there is no challenge, real challenge. The challenge, the major challenge is getting the work, finding the sandbox. — Morgan Freeman

I have to deal with being famous. Sometimes I have to tell people I don't do autographs, thank you very much. At certain places, I refuse to have my photograph taken. — Morgan Freeman

I know people are saying they like you. I'm not being insulted or pushed around or anything. People are coming up because they like me. Nevertheless, I can't be everybody's...none of us can. I hate saying no to people. — 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

Morgan Freeman Quotes About Acting

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

If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn how to cut open somebody's scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else. — Morgan Freeman

Acting means living, it's all I do. — 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

Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything. — Morgan Freeman

Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well. — Morgan Freeman

I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies. — Morgan Freeman

What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I'd like to get done. — Morgan Freeman

Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not. — Morgan Freeman

There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting. — Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman Quotes About Movie

Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. — 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

In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices. — Morgan Freeman

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. — Morgan Freeman

You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting. — 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

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

I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did. — Morgan Freeman

The main thing about awards in movies is that they can serve as an economic surge for the film. If you're movie gets nominated for any award it does it a big favour. People might go and see it again... they won't give up on it. — Morgan Freeman

From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies. — Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman Famous Quotes And Sayings

Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth. - Morgan Freeman

Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth. — Morgan Freeman

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people. - Morgan Freeman

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people. — Morgan Freeman

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it! - Morgan Freeman

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it! — Morgan Freeman

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself. — Morgan Freeman

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater. — 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 don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. - Morgan Freeman

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

We humans are more concerned with having than with being. - Morgan Freeman

We humans are more concerned with having than with being. — 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. — Morgan Freeman

Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. — Morgan Freeman

The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it. — Morgan Freeman

I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those things, the way your career is unfolding and all the talk about gravitas etc etc, so I had a strong feeling that someone was going to offer me the part of God. I was totally prepared to say, 'Thanks but no thanks,' unless it was a comedy. — 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

If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen. — Morgan Freeman

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort. — Morgan Freeman

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable. — Morgan Freeman

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous. — Morgan Freeman

Freeman denied the claim that he was a “man of God”, saying that “the question of faith is whatever you actually believe is. We take a lot of what we're talking about in science on faith; we posit a theory, and until it's dis-proven we have faith that it's true. If the mathematics work out, then it's true, until it's proven to be untrue. — Morgan Freeman

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. — Morgan Freeman

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

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

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them. — 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

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. — Morgan Freeman

If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space. — Morgan Freeman

Your job is always the same if it's a juggernaut or if it's just one of these little jewels of a film that's gonna wind up at the Laemmle or something, so your job doesn't change whatsoever... give it your best shot. — Morgan Freeman

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it. — 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. — Morgan Freeman

I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin. — Morgan Freeman

These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized. — 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. — Morgan Freeman

As the mask of deception falls off the face of humanity Unveiling the grim reality of duality In which everyone is a casualty, no one will be exempt Truth has many shades It's not a matter of black and white, but gray Although many, we are one, so in the final analysis Could it be that we are fighting a war that can't be won? — Morgan Freeman

If I stay at home, I'm not famous. I'm only famous when I'm out in the streets, so I don't go out on the streets much. — Morgan Freeman

I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded. — Morgan Freeman

Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin. — Morgan Freeman

In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe. — Morgan Freeman

I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather. — Morgan Freeman

I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late. — Morgan Freeman

One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God? — 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

Somebody once said to me after I'd done "Deep Impact," "What is it like to play a Black president," and I said, "I didn't play a Black president. I played a president. I just happened to be Black. There's a difference. — 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. — Morgan Freeman

Marketing only really works with word of mouth. — 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. — Morgan Freeman

When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that - fantasies. — Morgan Freeman

In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that. — Morgan Freeman

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

The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit. — Morgan Freeman

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind. — Morgan Freeman

I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get me to open my mouth. And put my foot in it if necessary. I think the only thing I do that gives me any bragging rights in terms of energy conservation is sailing. Just using wind power. — 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. — 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

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. — Morgan Freeman

I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die. — Morgan Freeman

Well, here’s a scientific question: Has anybody ever seen hard evidence? What we get is theories from our earlier prophets. Now, people who think that God invented us think that the Earth can’t be more than 6,000 years old. So I guess it’s a question of belief. My belief system doesn’t support a creator as such, as we can call God, who created us in His/Her/Its image. — Morgan Freeman

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy. — Morgan Freeman

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth. — Morgan Freeman

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place. — Morgan Freeman

I'm a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it's supposed to. — Morgan Freeman

I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American. — Morgan Freeman

I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me." — Morgan Freeman

I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to. — Morgan Freeman

I would never complain that Hollywood is racist when I'm one of the people touted as a welcome entity there. — Morgan Freeman

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

If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle — Morgan Freeman

Life Lessons by Morgan Freeman

  1. Morgan Freeman's career is a testament to the power of hard work and dedication, as he has achieved success in both film and television.
  2. His performances often demonstrate the importance of understanding the complexities of a character and bringing them to life.
  3. His work also serves as an example of how to remain humble and gracious, even in the face of great success.
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