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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. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston. "

Morgan Freeman

Time

Hospital

Remember

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Live

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" I gravitate towards gravitas. "

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Towards

Gravitate

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

" 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? "

Morgan Freeman

Job

Producer

" Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy. "

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Happy

Give Me

" This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection. "

" 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. "

" I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. "

" But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it. "

Morgan Freeman

Good

Life

" I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do. "

" 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. "

" I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy. "

" 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. "

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

" I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture. "

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

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Blues

Lot

" 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. "

" If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Black history is American history. "

" 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. "

Morgan Freeman

I Am

Acting

" I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring. "

" Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up. "

" 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. "