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48 Extraordinary Morgan Freeman Quotes
Morgan Freeman is an American actor and narrator. Freeman has won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He has also received 4 different Oscar nominations.
Morgan Freeman is known for his distinctively smooth, deep voice. He is ranked as the 4th highest box office star with over $4.3 Billion total box office gross sales, averaging over $74 million per film.
With a net worth of an estimated $150 million, Morgan Freeman is one of the most iconic actors in Hollywood today.
Here are 48 Extraordinary Morgan Freeman Quotes:
1. “The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.” – Morgan Freeman
2. “How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.” – Morgan Freeman
3. ”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
4. “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
5. “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.” – Morgan Freeman
6. “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.” – Morgan Freeman
7. “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.” – Morgan Freeman
8. “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.” – Morgan Freeman
9. “Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.” – Morgan Freeman
10. “People hear that and say I’m being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I’m doing and what I’m doing is channeling.” – Morgan Freeman
11. “As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.” – Morgan Freeman
12. “Give me something interesting to play and I’m happy.” – Morgan Freeman
13. “I gravitate towards gravitas.” – Morgan Freeman
14. “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.” – Morgan Freeman
15th Morgan Freeman Quote – “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
16. “I find it difficult to watch myself… I find it boring.” – Morgan Freeman
17. “People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.” – Morgan Freeman
18. “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.” – Morgan Freeman
19. “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.” – Morgan Freeman
20. “I’m not intimidated by lead roles. I’m better in them. I don’t feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That’s what I’m born to do.” – Morgan Freeman
21. “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
22. “I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.” – Morgan Freeman
23. “Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.” – Morgan Freeman
24. “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
25. “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
26. “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.” – Morgan Freeman
27. “I am going to stop calling you a white man and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.” – Morgan Freeman
28. “Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.” – Morgan Freeman
29. “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
30th Morgan Freeman Quote – “Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.” -Morgan Freeman
31. “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
32. “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
33. “Not only do I have to live right, I have to get some cash for my troubles – it’s a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.” – Morgan Freeman
34. “There’s no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.” – Morgan Freeman
35. “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.” – Morgan Freeman
36. “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.” – Morgan Freeman
37. “When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God’s gift to the theater.” – Morgan Freeman
38. “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
39. “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.” – Morgan Freeman
40. “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.” – Morgan Freeman
41. “You’re going to relegate my history to a month.” – Morgan Freeman
42. “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.” – Morgan Freeman
43. “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.” – Morgan Freeman
44. “Attacking people with disabilities is the lowest display of power I can think of.” – Morgan Freeman
45. “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 win to lock them up does rejoice.” – Morgan Freeman
46. “When you have made your choice, it is providence that is your guide. Good, bad, or indifferent. Your fate lies in that.” – Morgan Freeman
47. “I only get one life, and I will not let Fibromyalgia take the joy from living it.” – Morgan Freeman
48. “We humans are more concerned with having than with being.” – Morgan Freeman