Zitat des Tages von Morgan Freeman:
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
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.
As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
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.
I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.
I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.
You're going to relegate my history to a month.
Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.
I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.
People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.
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.
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.
It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.
I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.
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.
It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.
I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
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.
My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.
The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
Black history is American history.
This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.
Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?
It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.
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.
Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.
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.
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.
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.
The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.