Morgan Freeman Quotes

Never give up the ganja.

If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle

Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.

But I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am. I think what I got mostly from dance was carriage.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

Somebody once said to me after I'd done "Deep Impact," "What is it like to play a Black president," and I said, "I didn't play a Black president. I played a president. I just happened to be Black. There's a difference.

If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.

I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.

Well, here’s a scientific question: Has anybody ever seen hard evidence? What we get is theories from our earlier prophets. Now, people who think that God invented us think that the Earth can’t be more than 6,000 years old. So I guess it’s a question of belief. My belief system doesn’t support a creator as such, as we can call God, who created us in His/Her/Its image.

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

Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.

I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to.

What I haven't talked about I don't intend to talk about.

I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.

I am passionate about what is going on with the oceans, mainly because we are for some idiotic reason, really screwing it up. I mean, we're really killing the ocean. It's like putting out the sun. Without it, there is no us.

These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

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.

Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.

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.

That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

I gravitate towards gravitas.

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

I understand that when Gary Oldman was in that suit [Batman], sweat would just drip off of him where they had to have holes in the gloves or something.

I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama. I read his books. He is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. He's proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. The things that he's managed to get accomplished in the face of so much push-back is amazing, and I think - this is Morgan Freeman's personal thought - we're going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't reelect him, because the people on the other side of the fence scare me.

Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.

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.

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.

I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.

I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.

I like working with directors because I'm really opinionated about what things work and may not work, what audiences like and may not like, (not really) but I do have opinions about things. I like to be able to say them and then have them acted on. The director who responds to me like that, always gets my appreciation. I do appreciate it. What I find is the best directors, no matter what kind of name they have, are like that.

I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife.

I find that if I hold your hand, it transfers an energy first. I have a sense of how you feel. That's important to me trying to become another person. I have a lot pressure to bring a character to life in any kind of real sense.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Look at, look, the Tea Partiers, who are controlling the Republican Party....Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What's, what does that, what underlines that? 'Screw the country. We're going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we're going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here... It is a racist thing.

I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment.

If you're comfortable on a horse, you're comfortable on a horse. It's like being on a motorbike.

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.

Audiences believe what you believe. It's a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you've got no choice. None at all.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.

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.

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.

If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.