Morgan Freeman Quotes

I don’t know what my favorite film of mine is… But I think the most important film I was in was ‘Glory’.

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.

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.

If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

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.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

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.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

I feel fine, I don’t care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing – all of us – everybody in the business – that’s all you ask anyone – you know your job, I know mine, let’s go do it.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God’s gift to the theater.

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

The highest power is the human mind. That’s where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

I gravitate towards gravitas.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

People say it’s a movie about boxing, but… I don’t agree at all. I don’t think it’s a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It’s just a stage where this is played out.