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" 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. "

Morgan Freeman

You

Depend

Universe

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" I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring. "

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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. "

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

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

" Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them. "

" The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit. "

" Just that working with Clint again is like coming home. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. 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 want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Morgan Freeman

You

Acting

" 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. "

" There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. "

" I gravitate towards gravitas. "

Morgan Freeman

Towards

Gravitate

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Blues

Lot

" 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. "

" 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. "