Morgan Freeman Quotes

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

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?

We are turning everything on this planet into food for humans. We'll eat it and, if we can't eat it, we'll kill it and take its place and just move it out of the way.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out.

I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.

Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.

The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president.

Insanity is coasting through life.

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.

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.

Which lady would I like to meet? Um, I don't know that there's anybody left that I didn't meet. But the one that I really wanted to meet died and that was Princess Diana. I really wanted to get to know her. I like her.

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.

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?'

My job, personally, is to do as much as I can to spread the warning that if we're not careful, it will end. The problem is, we don't think beyond our immediate needs.

I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.

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

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

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

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

Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, 'Well, I'm tired of climbing this hill. I'm never going to get to the top.' And you're only two steps from the top.

Ive got a lot of life left in me and I want to live it doing things I like to do.

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

I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.

Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.

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

I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.

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

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.

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.

...if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts. I think we should be developing every kind of alternative fuel that is available to us. That includes hydrogen to soybeans, from solar to wind. Whatever we can find that is going to help us clean up the environment we should be working really hard on developing.

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.

So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.

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.

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.

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.

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