Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman is an American actor and narrator. Freeman won an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Supporting Actor with Million Dollar Baby, and he has received Oscar nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemptionand Invictus. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including Glory, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Seven, Deep Impact, The Sum of All Fears,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 June 1937
CityMemphis, TN
CountryUnited States of America
I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.
Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.
I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was very violent. But a fabulous story, a fabulous movie, very well done. So that and two or three other projects of his that I've seen, I just thought if I had a shot to work with him I wanted to do it.
Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.
I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.
In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.
Playing is no challenge; every time that you get a role you get to go play with other people in the sandbox and so there is no challenge, real challenge. The challenge, the major challenge is getting the work, finding the sandbox.
Nobody is trying to save energy. We're trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts.
Working on stage is really a great voice developer.
If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.
I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.
I'm a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it's supposed to.
I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.
I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.