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  • 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."
  • "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."
  • "And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less."
  • "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."
  • "Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."
  • "Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy."
  • "However, if you're like me, a person who really detests cold, it's hard to work in those conditions. You can't get me warm if you get me outside. You can stuff me with all kinds of clothes and pour hot soup all over me, I'm cold and I don't like it, and you can't make me like it."
  • "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 didn't think about it at all because the way you do narration, when I've done narration or these voice-overs, we sit down in a room with a microphone and a tape recorder and I just read it. I'm not thinking about what I'm doing, I'm just trying to live the dialogue, as it were."
  • "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 don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
  • "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 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."
  • "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."
  • "I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help."
  • "It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing."
  • "Just that working with Clint again is like coming home."
  • "Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance."
  • "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."
  • "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?"
  • "Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit."
  • "This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection."
  • "When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater."
  • "When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater."
  • "You want to be home about three weeks after you left in a big way but the family's okay, particularly if you're going someplace you never been before."
  • "You're going to relegate my history to a month."


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