Morgan Freeman Quotes

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Morgan Freeman

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 1, 1937

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

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

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When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

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

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Black history is American history.

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If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

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The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

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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.

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I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

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Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

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One of the things you can always depend on - this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here - whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.

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I gravitate towards gravitas.

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

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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.

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

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Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

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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.

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The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

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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.

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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.

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