Morgan Freeman Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 1, 1937

Topics

MindFeelYouLookLooksPerson

I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal.

Jeremy Bulloch

LoveGreatFirePeopleBelieveGun

I was always like that, at 5 years old, just demanding equality. I thought it could all be fixed if you called attention to it.

Amy Schumer

EqualityThoughtAttentionYouOld

I think, so many times in society, women are expected to behave a certain way. You are raised to say 'sorry' and 'excuse me', and get out of the way.

Stephanie Beatriz

WomenMeSocietySorryThinkYou

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

Tom Lehrer

NightYouWantRightAlwaysOver

For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.

Robin Wasserman

MyselfPastTeenMeLookPlace

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Ronald Reagan

GodFaithDefeatedNeverUpGive

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

Mary McLeod Bethune

MeWorldWholeReadLearnedOpened

'Tower Heist?' That is a movie that it's hard not to name-drop, but, it's a crew of five, and it's Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, me, Matthew Broderick, and Casey Affleck. And we're like, on a heist.

Michael Pena

MeHardTowerFiveCrewLike

I think really what needs to happen is the people of the United States need to stand up and say, 'Oil is an energy model from the past. It doesn't work for the planet, it doesn't work for the people, it never has and it never will.'

Julia Butterfly Hill

WorkPastPeopleStand UpEnergy

My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.

Chesley Sullenberger

WifeSomeoneRiskHeroismSheSee

A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

Clyde Edgerton

HappyChildBeing HappyYoungLead

I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

Pete Seeger

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