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Morgan Freeman

(1937) Producer United States

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Morgan Freeman is a producer from the United States, best known for March of the penguins.

Quick Facts About Morgan Freeman

Born: June 1, 1937
Nationality: United States
Profession: Producer
Notable works: March of the penguins

About Morgan Freeman

He received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2008, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012 and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2018. In a 2022 Empire readers’ poll, he was listed among the 50 greatest actors ever.

Awards & Honors

National Medal of Arts star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor AFI Life Achievement Award Silver Bear Golden Globe Awards Clarence Derwent Awards Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

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Quotes by Morgan Freeman · Page 2

Insanity is coasting through life.

Insanity

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“I never said any of those quotes...”

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Marketing only really works with word of mouth.

Marketing

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Never give up the ganja.

Ganja

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I gravitate towards gravitas.

Gravitas

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If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle

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The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

Best way

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I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

Blues

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What I haven't talked about I don't intend to talk about.

Funny

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Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

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Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

American hero

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In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that.

Alpha and omega

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Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.

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You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

Bucket list

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Working on stage is really a great voice developer.

Developers

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You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.

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I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would…

Ability

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But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to…

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There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's…

Acting

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Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.

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I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's…

Comedy

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I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all…

Character

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Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing,…

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

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One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist…

Astronomy

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I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten…

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Turn on the news and see how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold…

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Freeman denied the claim that he was a “man of God”, saying that “the question of faith is whatever you actually believe…

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I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was…

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As the mask of deception falls off the face of humanity Unveiling the grim reality of duality In which everyone is a…

Analysis

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I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out…

Advice

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I am passionate about what is going on with the oceans, mainly because we are for some idiotic reason, really screwing it…

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I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama. I read his books. He is absolutely and…

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Charm has been my greatest gift. I learned the power of charm early on in life. As a young black man in…

Charm

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You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then…

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No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation,…

Acting

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I can remember when I first got to los Angeles . I didn't have a car, I didn't have any money. I…

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"You are the actor, and I understand we already had our sit down, you explained your concept, your view," so I said,…

Actors

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We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

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Ive got a lot of life left in me and I want to live it doing things I like to do.

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