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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. "
Morgan Freeman
Memory
Rights
Peace
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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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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing. "
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" Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance. "
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" 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. "
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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 don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter. "
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" I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh. "
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" Just that working with Clint again is like coming home. "
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" I gravitate towards gravitas. "
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" You're going to relegate my history to a month. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Me
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" Black history is American history. "
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" Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere. "
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" I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. "
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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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Moving
Keep Going
Feet
" 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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" 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. "
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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, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies. "
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" This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection. "
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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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" I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'. "
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" As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less. "
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" Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them. "
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