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Morgan Freeman
American
Actor
Born:
Jun 1
,
1937
Actor
Life
Me
People
Think
You
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Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
Morgan Freeman
Inspirational
Life
Learning
Stillness
Becomes
How
Still
Happen
Really
Radiance
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
You
People
Will
Down
Dancing
Kids
Tell
Someone
Give
Lay
Step
Over
Feet
Always
Gotta
Hand
Going
Moving
Your
Keep
Keep Going
The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
Morgan Freeman
Best
Way
Best Way
Loss
Quit
Guarantee
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
Me
You
Man
Black
White
Calling
Am
Going
Stop
Ask
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.
Morgan Freeman
Time
Me
You
Job
Kind
Would
One Time
Driver
Never
Truck
Truck Driver
Crust
Know
Always
Get
Any
Going
Bread
Happen
Taxi
Taxi Driver
Homeless
Here
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
Morgan Freeman
History
Black
Month
Black History
American
Want
American History
Black history is American history.
Morgan Freeman
History
Black
Black History
American
American History
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
Me
You
Reality
Worth
Challenge
Ocean
Live
Something
Open
Until
Make-Believe
Because
Does
Real
Sailing
Anything
Your
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
Me
You
Weather
Drinking
First
Alcohol
Cold
Cold Weather
Worst
Worst Thing
Tell
Be The First
Hot
Because
Soup
Up
Process
Warm
Helps
Thing
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
Morgan Freeman
Hero
Black
King
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
He
American
Dr
Luther
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
You
First
Whatever
Depend
Universe
One Of The Things
Always
Heard
Truths
Want
Decide
Things
Here
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
You
Better
Promises
Become
Few
Whatever
Spent
Easy
Years
Very
Offer
Whatsoever
Being
Wanted
Happened
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.
Morgan Freeman
Life
Myself
Me
My Life
Living
Boring
See
Know
Been
Watch
As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
Morgan Freeman
You
Business
More
Learn
How
Less
Grow
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
You
People
Become
See
Remain
Go
Going
Story
Star
Actor
People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
Morgan Freeman
People
Think
About
Messages
Send
Movies
Start
Need
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
Character
You
Stillness
Drawn
Minimum
Hopkins
See
More
Through
He
Him
Still
Doing
Anthony Hopkins
His
Accomplish
Effective
Very
Effort
Anything
Working
Appear
Watch
Need
I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.
Morgan Freeman
Work
Long
Before
Only
Without
Antsy
Getting
Start
And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.
Morgan Freeman
Hat
Find
Finding
Fabulous
Dress
Props
Like
Always
Just
Then
Set
I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh.
Morgan Freeman
Me
Made
Laugh
When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
Morgan Freeman
God
Great
Gift
Doing
Very
Theater
Successful
Believing
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
People
Channeling
Say
About
Am
Doing
Hear
Truthful
Person
Being
Modest
Modest Person
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.
Morgan Freeman
Approach
Intuitive
Totally
Read
Am
Get
Script
Acting
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.
Morgan Freeman
Work
Saying
Time
You
Sometimes
Long
Out
Only
Fact
Come
Know
Most
Without
Go
Role
Antsy
Getting
Just
Stories
Story
Little
Movies
Paycheck
Start
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?
Morgan Freeman
Me
You
Job
Tell
About
Alright
Executive
Executive Producer
Because
Around
Go
Being
Anything
Title
Asking
Producer
Producers
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.
Morgan Freeman
You
Mind
Somebody
Own
He
Feel
Feels
Like
Look
Looks
Person
Move
Moves
Then
Your
Who
Playing
Imagine
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