Top 200 Morgan Freeman Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you’ve got a writer who’s clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.”

— Morgan Freeman

152. “Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.”

— Morgan Freeman

153. “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.”

— Morgan Freeman

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

— Morgan Freeman

155. “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

156. “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

157. “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

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

— 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. “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

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

— Morgan Freeman

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

— Morgan Freeman

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

— Morgan Freeman

165. “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

166. “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

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

— Morgan Freeman

168. “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

169. “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

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

— Morgan Freeman

171. “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

172. “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

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

— Morgan Freeman

174. “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

175. “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

176. “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

177. “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

178. “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

179. “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

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

— Morgan Freeman

181. “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

182. “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

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

— Morgan Freeman

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

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

— Morgan Freeman

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

— Morgan Freeman

190. “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

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

— Morgan Freeman

192. “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

193. “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

194. “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

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

— Morgan Freeman

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

— Morgan Freeman

197. “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

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

— Morgan Freeman

199. “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

200. “I’ve travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.”

— Morgan Freeman