Morgan Freeman Quotes

"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance."

"The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit."

"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."

"I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man."

"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."

"Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen."

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

"Black history is American history."

"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."

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

"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."

"I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture."

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

"I gravitate towards gravitas."

"When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater."

"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."

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

"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."

"Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy."

"Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better."

"One of the things you can always depend on - this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here - whatever we decide we want to do is what we do."

"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."

"I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring."

"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."

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

"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?"

"Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up."

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

"It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it."

"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."