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
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
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
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
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. – 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
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. – 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
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
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
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
There’s no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. – 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
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
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
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
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
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
When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God’s gift to the theater. – Morgan Freeman
This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection. – 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
