Morgan freeman quotes

Never give up the ganja.

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.

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.

So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.

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.

You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?'

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.

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.

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

I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.

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.

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.

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!'

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

Your job is always the same if it's a juggernaut or if it's just one of these little jewels of a film that's gonna wind up at the Laemmle or something, so your job doesn't change whatsoever... give it your best shot.

If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space.

Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

I'm a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it's supposed to.

I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. 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.

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

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

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

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

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

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

We’re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so we’re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and we’re doing all this to feed humans... ... Imagine if there were only 2 billion people polluting? We’re already overpopulated. I feel we’ve become a parasite on this planet. If this population keeps growing, we’ll just keep devouring the planet, and I don’t think it’s going to stand for that very long.

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.

I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.

Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.

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

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

I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.

If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.

If I stay at home, I'm not famous. I'm only famous when I'm out in the streets, so I don't go out on the streets much.

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.

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

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

Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.

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

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.

If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.

I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

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.

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.

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.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

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

You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.

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

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

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.

You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.

The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president.

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

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

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.

Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.

If we don't save the oceans, if we don't do something about what we're doing to the oceans, as well as the planet at large, we're going to be really sorry.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

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.

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

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

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

Marketing only really works with word of mouth.

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

Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.

I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.

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.

Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words that were written on the page, and you have to make your marks. That's the work.

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.

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.

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.

As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.

Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.

Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, 'Well, I'm tired of climbing this hill. I'm never going to get to the top.' And you're only two steps from the top.

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

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

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.

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.

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'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace.

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

Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.

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.

Your best posture is your next posture.

That's really just the worst part of life really, you get bracketed somewhere and the next thing you know people are saying, 'No. No. That's not the type. Get me so and so.' I'm not a type. I'm an actor.

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

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

So we say, oh, my goodness; we think we've found another Earth-like planet. We will start trying to figure out how to get there. And I have this strong belief that whatever we think we can do, whatever we can dream, we can do.

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.

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you've got a writer who's clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.

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.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

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.

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

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

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.

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.

Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.

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

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

If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.

As the mask of deception falls off the face of humanity Unveiling the grim reality of duality In which everyone is a casualty, no one will be exempt Truth has many shades It's not a matter of black and white, but gray Although many, we are one, so in the final analysis Could it be that we are fighting a war that can't be won?

I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those things, the way your career is unfolding and all the talk about gravitas etc etc, so I had a strong feeling that someone was going to offer me the part of God. I was totally prepared to say, 'Thanks but no thanks,' unless it was a comedy.

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.

Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.

I don't have anybody telling me what to say. I have people who would suggest, maybe, that I shouldn't do this, that or the other, but that's strictly up to me.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

It's just the stupidest law possible... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of dollars trying to fight a war we can't win! We could make zillions, just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. It's stupid.

One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people.

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