Quotes from Morgan Freeman

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.

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've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

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.

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

Insanity is coasting through life.

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.

My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.

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

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.

These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.

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.

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.