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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 6

If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that…

Dream

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

Catastrophe

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And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you…

Mind

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I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep…

Book

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Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable…

Compassion

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My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get…

Acting

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I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign…

American football

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You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep…

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My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember.…

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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…

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I don't think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears…

Actor

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If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the…

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I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get…

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If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to…

Acting

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What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing…

Acting

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The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying…

Betterment

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Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure…

Dignity

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[On a double win for black actors:]It means that Hollywood is continuing to make history. We're evolving with the rest of the…

History

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The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a…

Accident

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I'm married, I've been married to the same woman for - well, I've been with the same woman for close to...long enough…

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Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside…

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I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The…

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If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't…

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My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have…

Income

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And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going…

Actor

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When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and…

Education

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

Belief

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I am God. So it’s easy to play him. They say God is in all things. So if God is in me,…

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I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't…

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Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is…

Alcohol

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If you're comfortable on a horse, you're comfortable on a horse. It's like being on a motorbike.

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I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well,…

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Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible…Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.

Law

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People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about…

Being

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That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's…

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

Bread

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I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.

Always trying

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Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

Every night

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I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black…

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Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

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