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
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
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
I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture. – 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
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
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
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance. – 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. – Morgan Freeman
One of the things you can always depend on – this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here – whatever we decide we want to do is what we do. – 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
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
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
People hear that and say I’m being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I’m doing and what I’m doing is channeling. – Morgan Freeman
