List Of Morgan Freeman Quotes On Life:
#1 “If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge because it’s life or death.”
#2 “If you want to see a miracle, be a miracle.”
#3 “Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen, that stillness becomes a radiance.”
#4 “Audiences believe what you believe. It’s a matter of believing in yourself. If I believe me, then you’ve got no choice. None at all.”
#5 “You can’t take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.”
#6 “People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don’t make money, you don’t make anything.”
#7 “Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.”
#8 “People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.”
#9 “I find it difficult to watch myself… I find it boring.”
#10 “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.”
#11 “You want to retire from a job you’re not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can’t get out of bed doing it.”
#12 “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.”
#13 “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.”
#14 “I’m a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it’s supposed to.”
#15 “Kindness in thinking or giving, creates profoundness and happiness. Kindness in saying creates an everlasting love.”
#16 “I don’t do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it’s funny, it’s funny.”
#17 “I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.”
#18 “If I wasn’t acting, I have no clue what I’d be doing ’cause I have no other talent.”
#19 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.
#20 “I try to keep my mind active. I’m a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don’t do many things religiously and I’ve taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.”
#21 “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. How do you be good to life? You live it.”
#22 “I am God. So it’s easy to play him. They say God is in all things. So if God is in me, then I am in God. Therefore, I am God. God does not exist without me.”
#23 “The highest power is the human mind. That’s where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.”
#24 “You’re not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you’re a mimic; then you’re not acting, you’re just mimicking.”
#25 “Actors cannot work against each other. It’s totally impossible.”
#26 “If I stay at home, I’m not famous. I’m only famous when I’m out in the streets, so I don’t go out on the streets much.”
#27 “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.”
#28 “Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don’t act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, ‘I’m blind.’ So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.”
#29 “You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.”
#30 “Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.”
#31 “A single mom who’s working two jobs and still finds time to take her kid to soccer practice, that’s a miracle.”
#32 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.
#33 “Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm!”
#34 “Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.”
#35 “Don’t be different just for different’s sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.”
#36 “Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.”
#37 “Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn’t shift based on the insignificant actions of someon else. Don’t allow others to control the direction of your life. Don’t allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.”
#38 “Don’t be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.”
#39 “As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.”
#40 “In my career? Me. I’m the boss. I’m the end all and be all. I’m the alpha and omega in that.”
#41 “Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.”
#42 “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.
#43 “I’ve always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.”
#44 “The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
#45 “How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
#46 “Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.”
#47 “Don’t be different just for different’s sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.”
#48 “Get busy living or get busy dying!”
#49 “Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty.”
#50 “Kindness in thinking or giving, creates profoundness and happiness. Kindness in saying creates an everlasting love.”
Mortgan Freeman Quotes From Shawshank Redemption
“I find I’m so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it’s the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.”
“I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.”
“I could see why some of the boys took him for snobby. He had a quiet way about him, a walk and a talk that just wasn’t normal around here. He strolled, like a man in a park without a care or a worry in the world, like he had on an invisible coat that would shield him from this place. Yeah, I think it would be fair to say…I liked Andy from the start.”
“Sometimes it makes me sad, though… Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone. I guess I just miss my friend.”