Top 200 Morgan Freeman Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.”

— Morgan Freeman

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

— Morgan Freeman

153. “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

154. “I’ve always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.”

— Morgan Freeman

155. “I’m not digging tunnels, I’m not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.”

— Morgan Freeman

156. “When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God’s gift to the theater.”

— Morgan Freeman

157. “I don’t do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it’s funny, it’s funny.”

— Morgan Freeman

158. “The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.”

— Morgan Freeman

159. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

160. “I avoid seeing myself while I’m working on role so I won’t see “me.””

— Morgan Freeman

161. “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

162. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

163. “I don’t have to do anything. The character is shaped on the page.”

— Morgan Freeman

164. “Working on stage is really a great voice developer.”

— Morgan Freeman

165. “Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles – it’s a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.”

— Morgan Freeman

166. “If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that’s good use of your fame. I don’t try to avoid that.”

— Morgan Freeman

167. “From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.”

— Morgan Freeman

168. “Turn on the news and see how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?”

— Morgan Freeman

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

— Morgan Freeman

170. “If I wasn’t acting, I have no clue what I’d be doing ’cause I have no other talent.”

— Morgan Freeman

171. “When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I’d get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready.”

— Morgan Freeman

172. “I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.”

— Morgan Freeman

173. “It seems to me that I never grow unless I’m actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.”

— Morgan Freeman

174. “You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let’s say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting.”

— Morgan Freeman

175. “I don’t remember what my favourite comedy film is – truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.”

— Morgan Freeman

176. “Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.”

— Morgan Freeman

177. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

178. “I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn’t something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.”

— Morgan Freeman

179. “There’s an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you’re asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That’s acting.”

— Morgan Freeman

180. “My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It’s interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.”

— Morgan Freeman

181. “I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.”

— Morgan Freeman

182. “I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can’t do it.”

— Morgan Freeman

183. “That’s your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.”

— Morgan Freeman

184. “I don’t have anybody telling me what to say. I have people who would suggest, maybe, that I shouldn’t do this, that or the other, but that’s strictly up to me.”

— Morgan Freeman

185. “It’s sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.”

— Morgan Freeman

186. “What I haven’t talked about I don’t intend to talk about.”

— Morgan Freeman

187. “I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.”

— Morgan Freeman

188. “I am impatient with directors who don’t know what they want, and the way you don’t know what they want is because they want to do one more. “Let’s do one more.” So, “What for?” I guarantee you there’s not going to be a change.”

— Morgan Freeman

189. “I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I’m probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.”

— Morgan Freeman

190. “Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You’re dependent totally on the material.”

— Morgan Freeman

191. “I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.”

— Morgan Freeman

192. “The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.”

— Morgan Freeman

193. “I’ve always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.”

— Morgan Freeman

194. “I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.”

— Morgan Freeman

195. “Audiences believe what you believe. It’s a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you’ve got no choice. None at all.”

— Morgan Freeman

196. “Which lady would I like to meet? Um, I don’t know that there’s anybody left that I didn’t meet. But the one that I really wanted to meet died and that was Princess Diana. I really wanted to get to know her. I like her.”

— Morgan Freeman

197. “I’m also very fond of a light business jet, so I’d like to get it before it’s too late.”

— Morgan Freeman

198. “I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am. I think what I got mostly from dance was carriage.”

— Morgan Freeman

199. “I’m not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.”

— Morgan Freeman

200. “I’ve just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I’ve never needed to carry a character off stage.”

— Morgan Freeman