Morgan Freeman Quotes - Page 6

I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

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

I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.

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.

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.

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.

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

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.

I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.

I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.

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

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was very violent. But a fabulous story, a fabulous movie, very well done. So that and two or three other projects of his that I've seen, I just thought if I had a shot to work with him I wanted to do it.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

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.

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.

I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.

In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe.

It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.

I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.