Top 200 Morgan Freeman Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Nobody is trying to save energy. We’re trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts.”

— Morgan Freeman

53. “Give me something interesting to play and I’m happy.”

— Morgan Freeman

54. “I go on vacation strictly to relax – to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.”

— Morgan Freeman

55. “I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.”

— Morgan Freeman

56. “There are things that I would like to do, but I make a big distinction between liking to do something and wanting to do something. If there’s something that I want to do I’ve done it. If there’s something that comes up that I want to do I will do it.”

— Morgan Freeman

57. “I have four children and nine grandchildren. I’m presently wearing out my second wife.”

— Morgan Freeman

58. “The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.”

— Morgan Freeman

59. “One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?”

— Morgan Freeman

60. “Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, ‘Well, I’m tired of climbing this hill. I’m never going to get to the top.’ And you’re only two steps from the top.”

— Morgan Freeman

61. “In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she’ll say certainly not her. She claims that she can’t make me do anything and so she’s not my boss. I am. I’m pretty sure, maybe.”

— Morgan Freeman

62. “The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one’s life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It’s something you always have to work at; you don’t get perfect at golf. It’s the never-ending quest for betterment.”

— Morgan Freeman

63. “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

64. “Ive got a lot of life left in me and I want to live it doing things I like to do.”

— Morgan Freeman

65. “If you dream you’ve got to dream that it’s going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen.”

— Morgan Freeman

66. “When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that – fantasies.”

— Morgan Freeman

67. “I’m making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it’s painful and sometimes it’s stressful, sometimes it’s agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace.”

— Morgan Freeman

68. “I’ve never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.”

— Morgan Freeman

69. “We are turning everything on this planet into food for humans. We’ll eat it and, if we can’t eat it, we’ll kill it and take its place and just move it out of the way.”

— Morgan Freeman

70. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

71. “Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words that were written on the page, and you have to make your marks. That’s the work.”

— Morgan Freeman

72. “Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve – a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.”

— Morgan Freeman

73. “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

74. “The trick to any profession is making it look easy.”

— Morgan Freeman

75. “I try to keep my mind active. I’m a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don’t do many things religiously and I’ve taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.”

— Morgan Freeman

76. “I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.”

— Morgan Freeman

77. “Every job’s a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there – wherever that is.”

— Morgan Freeman

78. “I don’t think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears open. You do learn something from every outing, every time that you go for it. But for me what actors do is interact and that’s why you have to do that.”

— Morgan Freeman

79. “Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man’s feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.”

— Morgan Freeman

80. “I would never complain that Hollywood is racist when I’m one of the people touted as a welcome entity there.”

— Morgan Freeman

81. “It’s seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I’ve worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that’s the only one that’s happened with, simply because I adore his work.”

— Morgan Freeman

82. “Insanity is coasting through life...”

— Morgan Freeman

83. “Don’t be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.”

— Morgan Freeman

84. “People don’t want to hang around someone that you don’t know how they’re going to react to anything you do or say.”

— Morgan Freeman

85. “Someone’s going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it’s nothing.”

— Morgan Freeman

86. “Hey, if I don’t have a job, I don’t know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I’m ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I’ve never retired. I don’t even know what it means.”

— Morgan Freeman

87. “You don’t know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don’t have it.”

— Morgan Freeman

88. “In my career? Me. I’m the boss. I’m the end all and be all. I’m the alpha and omega in that.”

— Morgan Freeman

89. “The public feels that if it’s on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven’t committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.”

— Morgan Freeman

90. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

91. “Marketing only really works with word of mouth.”

— Morgan Freeman

92. “Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.”

— Morgan Freeman

93. “If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that’s way beyond what you’ve ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.”

— Morgan Freeman

94. “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

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

— Morgan Freeman

96. “I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out.”

— Morgan Freeman

97. “I don’t need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get me to open my mouth. And put my foot in it if necessary. I think the only thing I do that gives me any bragging rights in terms of energy conservation is sailing. Just using wind power.”

— Morgan Freeman

98. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

99. “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

100. “I’m not a comedian. I don’t make things funny if they’re not funny. I don’t invent funny stuff.”

— Morgan Freeman