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 just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.
And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.
Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.
A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'.
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.
I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those things, the way your career is unfolding and all the talk about gravitas etc etc, so I had a strong feeling that someone was going to offer me the part of God. I was totally prepared to say, 'Thanks but no thanks,' unless it was a comedy.
Never give up the ganja.
Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.
Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.
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.
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'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.