Morgan Freeman

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh.”

“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 don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.”

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

“Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.”

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

“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.”

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

“Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.”

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

“Black history is American history.”

“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.”