Top 200 Morgan Freeman Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I’m easy going for the most part but sometimes in the morning if I didn’t sleep well I can be kind of grumpy. But my grumpiness doesn’t have that much to do with my dissatisfaction with my station in life.”

— Morgan Freeman

102. “Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.”

— Morgan Freeman

103. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

104. “Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.”

— Morgan Freeman

105. “You want to retire from a job you’re not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can’t get out of bed doing it.”

— Morgan Freeman

106. “Someone’s always going to come down on the side of the fence.”

— Morgan Freeman

107. “I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.”

— Morgan Freeman

108. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

109. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

110. “That’s really just the worst part of life really, you get bracketed somewhere and the next thing you know people are saying, ‘No. No. That’s not the type. Get me so and so.’ I’m not a type. I’m an actor.”

— Morgan Freeman

111. “I believe it doesn’t really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.”

— Morgan Freeman

112. “Playing is no challenge; every time that you get a role you get to go play with other people in the sandbox and so there is no challenge, real challenge. The challenge, the major challenge is getting the work, finding the sandbox.”

— Morgan Freeman

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

— Morgan Freeman

114. “If you’re comfortable on a horse, you’re comfortable on a horse. It’s like being on a motorbike.”

— Morgan Freeman

115. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

116. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

117. “If I stay at home, I’m not famous. I’m only famous when I’m out in the streets, so I don’t go out on the streets much.”

— Morgan Freeman

118. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

119. “I have to deal with being famous. Sometimes I have to tell people I don’t do autographs, thank you very much. At certain places, I refuse to have my photograph taken.”

— Morgan Freeman

120. “If you’re going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don’t have to go and learn how to cut open somebody’s scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else.”

— Morgan Freeman

121. “Even through my good-looking youth, I wasn’t called on for any romantic parts, which is okay. What I was called on to do, I enjoyed doing. The funny thing about life is that if you live long enough, I think, you’ll get every wish you ever had. It’ll all come true.”

— Morgan Freeman

122. “They’re talking about kids who have grand mal seizures, and they’ve discovered that marijuana eases that down to where these children can have a life. That right there, to me, says, ‘Legalize it across the board!’”

— Morgan Freeman

123. “Actors cannot work against each other. It’s totally impossible.”

— Morgan Freeman

124. “I think one of the things when you’re casting children is you’re also casting their parents.”

— Morgan Freeman

125. “I’m not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.”

— Morgan Freeman

126. “If your income on films or whatever you’re producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don’t have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don’t make money, you don’t make anything.”

— Morgan Freeman

127. “I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you’re surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!”

— Morgan Freeman

128. “Never pay for what you steal.”

— Morgan Freeman

129. “I seldom get into the mood of the story. It’s acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don’t take anything away from it.”

— Morgan Freeman

130. “What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there’s a western that I want to do. There’s a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I’d like to get done.”

— Morgan Freeman

131. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

132. “When I was growing up, I didn’t see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn’t funny, I wasn’t there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn’t funny. He was just good. There’s me. So that was my pattern.”

— Morgan Freeman

133. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

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

— Morgan Freeman

135. “Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You’re the only who start with nothing except what’s up here. You do that. It’s really hard I think, acting is not.”

— Morgan Freeman

136. “In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that’s pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.”

— Morgan Freeman

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

— Morgan Freeman

138. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

139. “Seeing is believing, but is it truth? Depends on your point-of-view. Are you listening, horsemen? When you emerge, and you will, I will be there... waiting. Because mark my words, you will get what’s coming to you... in ways you can’t expect... but very much deserve. Because once thing I believe in is an eye for an eye.”

— Morgan Freeman

140. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

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

— Morgan Freeman

142. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

143. “I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we’re destroying. It’s up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don’t know how we’ll achieve it, but we need to.”

— Morgan Freeman

144. “I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.”

— Morgan Freeman

145. “I remember saying to my agent, “Listen, everybody’s going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there.” And his advice to me was, “I wouldn’t do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they’ll send you.” And sure enough, they did.”

— Morgan Freeman

146. “I just wanted to be an actor. It’s better to be well-rounded.”

— Morgan Freeman

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

— Morgan Freeman

148. “I don’t do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I’m a southern boy.”

— Morgan Freeman

149. “I don’t think you’re going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.”

— Morgan Freeman

150. “Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren’t hanging out there, you don’t offer anything.”

— Morgan Freeman