Morgan Freeman Quotes & Sayings

If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen. — Morgan Freeman

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. — Morgan Freeman

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

Turn on the news and see how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single 'victim' of Columbine? — Morgan Freeman

The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it. — Morgan Freeman

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

I know people are saying they like you. I'm not being insulted or pushed around or anything. People are coming up because they like me. Nevertheless, I can't be everybody's ... none of us can. I hate saying no to people. — Morgan Freeman

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

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving. — Morgan Freeman

I can remember when I first got to los Angeles . I didn't have a car, I didn't have any money. I was walking the streets, you know, trying to get from place to place on foot almost. Sometimes, you know, you say, how am I ever going to get from here to there? There are a lot of people still having that dream and not being able to get there. So you never know. The idea is to keep on tap dancing, though. — Morgan Freeman

I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents. — Morgan Freeman

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

I don't think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears open. You do learn something from every outing, every time that you go for it. But for me what actors do is interact and that's why you have to do that. — Morgan Freeman

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less. — Morgan Freeman

I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work. — Morgan Freeman

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

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it. — Morgan Freeman

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it. — Morgan Freeman

Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not. — Morgan Freeman

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit. — Morgan Freeman

Kindness in thinking or giving, creates profoundness and happiness. Kindness in saying creates an everlasting love- Morgan Freeman — Morgan Freeman

Acting means living, it's all I do ... — Morgan Freeman

There are things that I would like to do, but I make a big distinction between liking to do something and wanting to do something. If there's something that I want to do I've done it. If there's something that comes up that I want to do I will do it. — Morgan Freeman

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. — Morgan Freeman

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection. — Morgan Freeman

What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I'd like to get done. — Morgan Freeman

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it. — 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

In the harshest place on Earth, ... love finds a way. — Morgan Freeman

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. — Morgan Freeman

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

All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything. — Morgan Freeman

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it! — Morgan Freeman

"You are the actor, and I understand we already had our sit down, you explained your concept, your view," so I said, "Okay, I'm in your hands." That means that if you've got to nudge me a little bit to the right I move to the right, just from the pressure, weight, but you won't have to touch me at all. You can come and go "Okay, you want me over here a little bit more," so no pressure on us at all that's easy to do. — Morgan Freeman

If you want to see a miracle, Be a miracle. — Morgan Freeman

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

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? — Morgan Freeman

Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down. — Morgan Freeman

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that. — Morgan Freeman

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty — Morgan Freeman

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy. — Morgan Freeman

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

Working on stage is really a great voice developer. — Morgan Freeman

Marketing only really works with word of mouth. — Morgan Freeman

I am God. So it's easy to play him. They say God is in all things. So if God is in me, then I am in God. Therefore, I am God. God does not exist without me. — Morgan Freeman

Challenge yourself; it's the only path which leads to growth. — Morgan Freeman

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. — Morgan Freeman

In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe. — Morgan Freeman

If I could narrate your life I would , especially Jose's. — Morgan Freeman

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. — Morgan Freeman

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. — Morgan Freeman

You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting. — Morgan Freeman

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people. — Morgan Freeman

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. — Morgan Freeman

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death. — Morgan Freeman

I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor. — Morgan Freeman

Costume is always an asset. Normal costume you have a lot to say about - if you're wearing suits or ties, and what color you want, and how it's going to be cut, and stuff like that, and whether or not you're going to wear a hat, and blah, blah, blah. But, when you're wearing a special costume, and of course, costume is probably the second ingredient in character, script being first, I always find that the costume does a lot to cement your character, to put it firmly in mind. — Morgan Freeman

The trick to any profession is making it look easy. — Morgan Freeman

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable. — Morgan Freeman

When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready. — Morgan Freeman

I don't have to do anything. The character is shaped on the page. — Morgan Freeman

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

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. — Morgan Freeman

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

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

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. — Morgan Freeman

Even through my good-looking youth, I wasn't called on for any romantic parts, which is okay. What I was called on to do, I enjoyed doing. The funny thing about life is that if you live long enough, I think, you'll get every wish you ever had. It'll all come true. — Morgan Freeman

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him. — Morgan Freeman

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it. — Morgan Freeman

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. — Morgan Freeman

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. — Morgan Freeman

The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me. — Morgan Freeman

I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people. — Morgan Freeman

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous. — Morgan Freeman

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. — 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

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. — Morgan Freeman

There is no such thing as homophobia. It is not a fear. It is you being an asshole. — Morgan Freeman

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve
a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind. — Morgan Freeman

I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box. — 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

If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent. — Morgan Freeman

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. — Morgan Freeman

No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation, it's what you do to prepare. So my method is to read the script. Some actors' method is to read the script a hundred times and in the doing of it, to immerse themselves in as much of the reality as possible. Me, I believe strictly in acting. If I am out of breath, I'm out of breath. I ain't running nowhere. — Morgan Freeman

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it. — Morgan Freeman

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. — Morgan Freeman

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically. — Morgan Freeman

They're talking about kids who have grand mal seizures, and they've discovered that marijuana eases that down to where these children can have a life. That right there, to me, says, 'Legalize it across the board!' — Morgan Freeman

It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work. — Morgan Freeman

I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin. — Morgan Freeman

In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices. — Morgan Freeman

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

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it. — Morgan Freeman

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. — Morgan Freeman

I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating. — Morgan Freeman

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was ... I always wanted to be a movie actor. — Morgan Freeman

I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was very violent. But a fabulous story, a fabulous movie, very well done. So that and two or three other projects of his that I've seen, I just thought if I had a shot to work with him I wanted to do it. — Morgan Freeman

I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people. — Morgan Freeman

I never said any of those quotes... — Morgan Freeman