Morgan Freeman Quotes

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

Moving, Someone, Down

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

Black, Hero, American

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

Inspirational, Life, Learning

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

History, Black, American

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.
Morgan Freeman

Life, Death, Live

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

Life, Good, Live

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

Music, School, Interested

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

Black, Stop, Ask

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

Business, Learn, Less

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

Life, Remember, Old

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.
Morgan Freeman

Best, Food, Weather

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

Happy, Give, Play

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

Good, Small, Living

Black history is American history.
Morgan Freeman

History, Black, American

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.
Morgan Freeman

Job, Nothing, Hard

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.
Morgan Freeman

Movies, Live, Start

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
Morgan Freeman

Best, Loss, Quit

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

Work, Long, Before

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.
Morgan Freeman

Peace, Him, Keep

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.
Morgan Freeman

Life, Great, Become

I gravitate towards gravitas.
Morgan Freeman

Gravitate, Towards

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.
Morgan Freeman

Won, Movie, Yeah

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

Great, Mind, Before

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

Become, Story, Actor

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

Work, Romantic, Done

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Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: June 1, 1937

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