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 think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.
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.
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We are all part of American history. Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero. ... The world needs his message today more than ever before.
We want to give people what they want, when they want it. We are following the wave.
You're going to relegate my history to a month.
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.
Anyone anywhere in the world who has the service will have front row seats right in the comfort of their own home. Think about that.
In my country, we talk to our women, not drug them with plants.
I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.
What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I'd like to get done.
If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen.
I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.
I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.