Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

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.

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

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

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.