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

One day very soon, we'll be asked: what did we do. And we will say: we did everything we could... we have to... because if we don't there won't be anyone left to ask. We have never faced a crisis this big, that we have never had better ideas to solve. This is our only home. We can choose today to make a world of difference.

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

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.

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

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.

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