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I Don't Think That Anyone Learns Anything. Well, I Mean, You Do Always Learn Something If You Have Your Eyes And Ears Open. You Do Learn Something From Every Outing, Every Time That You Go For It. But For Me What Actors Do Is Interact And That's Why You Have To Do That.

-Morgan Freeman

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I Don't Think That Anyone Learns Anything. Well, I Mean, You Do Always Learn Something If You Have Your Eyes And Ears Open. You Do Learn Something From Every Outing, Every Time That You Go For It. But For Me What Actors Do Is Interact And That's Why You Have To Do That.

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It's Just The Stupidest Law Possible... You're Just Making Criminals Out Of People Who Aren't Engaged In Criminal Activity. And We're Spending Zillions Of Dollars Trying To Fight A War We Can't Win! We Could Make Zillions, Just Legalize It And Tax It Like We Do Liquor. It's Stupid.

If You Get Called On To Help Somebody Pull Focus To Some Good Cause, That's Good Use Of Your Fame. I Don't Try To Avoid That.

Part Of Acting Is Having The Security To Turn Yourself Loose And Let Yourself Go In Order To Reach Whatever Depths A Character Has. If Your Guts Aren't Hanging Out There, You Don't Offer Anything.

I Don't Have To Do Anything. The Character Is Shaped On The Page.

I Like Working With Directors Because I'm Really Opinionated About What Things Work And May Not Work, What Audiences Like And May Not Like, (not Really) But I Do Have Opinions About Things. I Like To Be Able To Say Them And Then Have Them Acted On. The Director Who Responds To Me Like That, Always Gets My Appreciation. I Do Appreciate It. What I Find Is The Best Directors, No Matter What Kind Of Name They Have, Are Like That.

Finding Joy Is Probably Tantamount To Finding Yourself And Being Comfortable In Your Own Skin.

Finding Yourself

When I Was A Teenager, I Began To Settle Into School Because I'd Discovered The Extracurricular Activities That Interested Me: Music And Theater.

You Don't Know How Much You Appreciate Your Privacy Until You Don't Have It.

"you Are The Actor, And I Understand We Already Had Our Sit Down, You Explained Your Concept, Your View," So I Said, "okay, I'm In Your Hands." That Means That If You've Got To Nudge Me A Little Bit To The Right I Move To The Right, Just From The Pressure, Weight, But You Won't Have To Touch Me At All. You Can Come And Go "okay, You Want Me Over Here A Little Bit More," So No Pressure On Us At All That's Easy To Do.

I Have Four Children And Nine Grandchildren. I'm Presently Wearing Out My Second Wife.

I Think That We Did A Really Good Thing When We Elected Barack Obama. I Read His Books. He Is Absolutely And Totally Qualified For The Job. He's Proven Himself To Be Not Only Qualified For The Job, But Very Good At It. The Things That He's Managed To Get Accomplished In The Face Of So Much Push-back Is Amazing, And I Think - This Is Morgan Freeman's Personal Thought - We're Going To Be In A Lot Of Trouble If We Don't Reelect Him, Because The People On The Other Side Of The Fence Scare Me.

I'm Not Sure That My Upbringing Has In Itself Informed My Acting Choices.

I Hate The Word Homophobia. It's Not A Phobia. You Are Not Scared. You Are An Asshole.

When I Was Doing Theater, I Was Very Successful At Believing That I Was Great, God's Gift To The Theater.

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