Quotes from Morgan Freeman

Ive got a lot of life left in me and I want to live it doing things I like to do.

People don't want to hang around someone that you don't know how they're going to react to anything you do or say.

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

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.

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

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

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 only get one life, and I will not let fibromyalgia take the joy from living it.

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

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.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.

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

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.

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.

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.

I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.

It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work.

I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

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

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.

I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late.