Morgan Freeman Quotes

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.

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

I don't have to do anything. The character is shaped on the page.

Working on stage is really a great voice developer.

But 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.

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

I understand that when Gary Oldman was in that suit [Batman], sweat would just drip off of him where they had to have holes in the gloves or something.

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.

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.

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

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.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.

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

My job, personally, is to do as much as I can to spread the warning that if we're not careful, it will end. The problem is, we don't think beyond our immediate needs.

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.

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

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

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.

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

If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

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.

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

I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife.

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

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