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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 man. "
Morgan Freeman
Man
Black
You
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" I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. "
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" When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater. "
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" As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less. "
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" 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. "
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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 to go and see the story you're in. "
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" 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. "
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" Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero. "
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" Black history is American history. "
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" The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it. "
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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 theater. "
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" 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. "
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Group
" Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them. "
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" 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. "
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" I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring. "
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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 happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him. "
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" 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. "
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" People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies. "
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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, maybe. "
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" 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? "
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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 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. "
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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 what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling. "
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