A biography for Morgan Freemanhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.”
“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 sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.”
“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 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.”
“I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You're going to relegate my history to a month.”
“Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.”
“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.”
“When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.”
“I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.”
“As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.”
“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.”
“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.”