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

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

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.
Morgan Freeman

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

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

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
Morgan Freeman

Black history is American history.
Morgan Freeman

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

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
Morgan Freeman

Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.
Morgan Freeman


I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.
Morgan Freeman

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

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

I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.
Morgan Freeman

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

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.
Morgan Freeman

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
Morgan Freeman

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

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.
Morgan Freeman

I gravitate towards gravitas.
Morgan Freeman