Morgan Freeman

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

“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.”

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

“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 best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.”

“I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.”

“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.”

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

“I gravitate towards gravitas.”

“I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.”

“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.”

“Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.”

“I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.”