Latest Morgan Freeman Quotes from Interviews

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• I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

  Morgan Freeman

  Basketball, Soccer, Baseball

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• I am passionate about what is going on with the oceans, mainly because we are for some idiotic reason, really screwing it up. I mean, we're really killing the ocean. It's like putting out the sun. Without it, there is no us.

  Morgan Freeman

  Ocean, Mean, Passionate

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• I find that if I hold your hand, it transfers an energy first. I have a sense of how you feel. That's important to me trying to become another person. I have a lot pressure to bring a character to life in any kind of real sense.

  Morgan Freeman

  Real, Character, Hands

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• Your job is always the same if it's a juggernaut or if it's just one of these little jewels of a film that's gonna wind up at the Laemmle or something, so your job doesn't change whatsoever... give it your best shot.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Jewels, Wind

  "Interview: Gary Oldman And Morgan Freeman" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 9, 2005.

• A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said], "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine.

  Morgan Freeman

  Sound, Mouths, Scientist

  "Interview: Gary Oldman And Morgan Freeman" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 9, 2005.

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Clothes, Actors, Awful

  "Interview: Gary Oldman And Morgan Freeman" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 9, 2005.

• "You are the actor, and I understand we already had our sit down, you explained your concept, your view," so I said, "Okay, I'm in your hands." That means that if you've got to nudge me a little bit to the right I move to the right, just from the pressure, weight, but you won't have to touch me at all. You can come and go "Okay, you want me over here a little bit more," so no pressure on us at all that's easy to do.

  Morgan Freeman

  Moving, Mean, Hands

  Source: www.chud.com

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

  Morgan Freeman

  Character, Pages

  "Morgan Freeman & Gary Oldman—Batman Begins". Interview with Peter Canavese, grouchoreviews.com. May 3, 2005.

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Sweat, Gloves, Suits

  Source: www.chud.com

• So we say, oh, my goodness; we think we've found another Earth-like planet. We will start trying to figure out how to get there. And I have this strong belief that whatever we think we can do, whatever we can dream, we can do.

  Morgan Freeman

  Dream, Strong, Thinking

  "Morgan Freeman: No Black President For U.S. Yet". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, nhpr.org. July 3, 2012.

• Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, 'Well, I'm tired of climbing this hill. I'm never going to get to the top.' And you're only two steps from the top.

  Morgan Freeman

  Tired, Climbing, Two

  "Morgan Freeman: No Black President For U.S. Yet". "TEll Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 3, 2012.

• If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.

  Morgan Freeman

  Luck, Good Things, Be Good

  "Morgan Freeman: No Black President For U.S. Yet". "TEll Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 3, 2012.

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

  Morgan Freeman

  Growing Up, Safe, I Realized

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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

  Morgan Freeman

  Children, Wife, Four

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

• I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Acting, Stories, Quitting

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

• Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Challenges, Looks

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Roots, Interesting, Income

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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

  Morgan Freeman

  People, Hollywood, Complaining

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

• As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.

  Morgan Freeman

  Long, Victim, Feels

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

• I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Boxes

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

• I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Advice, Hollywood

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

• It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.

  Morgan Freeman

  Actors, Shells, Working With Others

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

• I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

  Morgan Freeman

  School, Technique, Gone

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Class, Athletic

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.