Morgan Freeman Quotes

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.

You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ ‘Has your life brought joy to others?’

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.

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

Once you’ve gotten the job, there’s nothing to it. If you’re an actor, you’re an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

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

Don’t be different just for different’s sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

I don’t get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.

I hate the word homophobia. It’s not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.

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.

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

If you’re not living on the edge then you’re taking up a little too much space.

People hear that and say I’m being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I’m doing and what I’m doing is channeling.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

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

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.