Morgan Freeman Quotes - Page 10

I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.

Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?

I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama. I read his books. He is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. He's proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. The things that he's managed to get accomplished in the face of so much push-back is amazing, and I think - this is Morgan Freeman's personal thought - we're going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't reelect him, because the people on the other side of the fence scare me.

If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.

I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.

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

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.

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.

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.

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.

No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation, it's what you do to prepare. So my method is to read the script. Some actors' method is to read the script a hundred times and in the doing of it, to immerse themselves in as much of the reality as possible. Me, I believe strictly in acting. If I am out of breath, I'm out of breath. I ain't running nowhere.

We are turning everything on this planet into food for humans. We'll eat it and, if we can't eat it, we'll kill it and take its place and just move it out of the way.

I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.

I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.

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.

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.

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.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

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

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

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

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

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