Best Morgan Freeman Quotes
Morgan Freeman Quotes About Shawshak, Movie, Life, Love, Funny, Advice, Robinhood, Education, Self Control, Friends & Emotions! Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, filmmaker, and storyteller. Freeman is known for his broad range of parts in various film genres and distinctive baritone voice. He has won several awards throughout his five-decade career, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
When Freeman grew up in Mississippi, he began acting in school plays. He started his career as a stage actor in Los Angeles, where he studied theater arts. The Electric Agency, a children’s television program from the 1970s, catapulted him to fame at the time. His breakthrough performance was as a hustler in Street Smart (1987), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman featured together in the 1992 western revenge picture Unforgiven; this was the first of many collaborations between the two actors. Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa, in Clint Eastwood’s biopic Invictus, earned him his fifth Oscar nomination in 2009. His role as Lucius Fox in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy is another notable actor.
As well as being an actor, Freeman has also directed the play Bopha! (1993). Revelations amusement, which he co-founded with business partner Lori McCreary, is a movie production company. He has received several honors, including the Kennedy Centre Honor, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the Television Actors Guild’s Life Achievement Award. Three Obie Awards have been given to him for his work in theatrical plays, making him one of the most prominent distinctions in the field of theater.
Best Morgan Freeman Quotes
1. “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.”-Morgan Freeman
2. “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
3. “I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.”-Morgan Freeman
4. “Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.”-Morgan Freeman
5. “People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.”-Morgan Freeman
6. “How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!”-Morgan Freeman
7. “Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.”-Morgan Freeman
8. “How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.”-Morgan Freeman
9. “When you have made your choice, it is providence that is your guide. Good, bad, or indifferent. Your fate lies in that.”-Morgan Freeman
10. “Attacking people with disabilities is the lowest display of power I can think of.”-Morgan Freeman
11. “In the harshest place on Earth,… love finds a way.”-Morgan Freeman
12. “The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.”-Morgan Freeman
13. “Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty.”-Morgan Freeman
14. “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
15. “You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.”-Morgan Freeman
16. “The highest power is the human mind. That’s where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.”-Morgan Freeman
17. “Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn’t appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can’t see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.”-Morgan Freeman
18. “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
19. “I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that’s, of course, wonderful. I’m really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.”-Morgan Freeman
20. “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.”-Morgan Freeman
21. “Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.”-Morgan Freeman
22. “Don’t be different just for differing’s sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.”-Morgan Freeman
23. “If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality.”-Morgan Freeman
24. “If you dream you’ve got to dream that it’s going to happen. Remember that. If you dream, you have to imagine that it will actually happen.”-Morgan Freeman
25. “Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.”-Morgan Freeman
26. “Stage is really hard work. You’ve got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.”-Morgan Freeman
27. “I am God. So it’s easy to play him. They say God is in all things. So if God is in me, then I am in God. Therefore, I am God. God does not exist without me.”-Morgan Freeman
28.“Challenge yourself, it’s the only path which leads to growth.”-Morgan Freeman
29. “As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.”-Morgan Freeman
30. “I’m not intimidated by lead roles. I’m better in them. I don’t feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That’s what I’m born to do.”-Morgan Freeman
