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The Public Feels That If It's On The Internet And You Can Access It, You Deserve It. You Haven't Committed Any Kind Of Crime. We May Even Have To Rename Piracy. But In Any Case, We Have To Confront It.

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Morgan Freeman

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The Public Feels That If It's On The Internet And You Can Access It, You Deserve It. You Haven't Committed Any Kind Of Crime. We May Even Have To Rename Piracy. But In Any Case, We Have To Confront It.

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I Think One Of The Things When You're Casting Children Is You're Also Casting Their Parents.

My Approach To Acting Is That I Am Totally Intuitive. I Read The Script And I Get It. If I Don't Get It, I Can't Do It.

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.

I Seldom Get Into The Mood Of The Story. It's Acting. I Go In, I Act, I Quit. I Don't Take Anything Away From It.

Is Listening Important? I Can't Think Of A Single Walk Of Life Where It Wouldn't Be.

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.'

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.

I'm A Firm Believer That Things Happen As They Should. The Universe Unfolds Just As It's Supposed To.

My Roots Were Pretty Far Removed From High Income. It's Interesting To Be Back There At The Level Of Income I Have Now, At This Stage In My Life.

There's No Mystery To It. Nothing More Complicated Than Learning Lines And Putting On A Costume.

People Don't Want To Hang Around Someone That You Don't Know How They're Going To React To Anything You Do Or Say.

I Have Never Acted He Has Never Been Cast In A Romantic Lead Or Has Been Cast Opposite A Female Love Interest In Any Movie He Starred In.

What I Haven't Talked About I Don't Intend To Talk About.

I Like Producing But Acting Is The Quintessential Me, And I'm Probably Better At That Than I Am At Anything. My Heart Has Always Been In The Movies.

I Think You Take A Job, You Owe It As Much Passion As The Job Itself Demands. And Most Jobs Demand That You Be Totally Committed.

I Don't Want A Black History Month. Black History Is American History.

I Am Going To Stop Calling You A White Man And I'm Going To Ask You To Stop Calling Me A Black Man.

Rob [reiner] Is A Teddy Bear. He's Hell Delicious. He's A Really Good Director. He's A Great Soul. In The Movie Business, I Would Call Him A Movie Mom. The Only Person I Hold In Equal Esteem Is Clint Eastwood. Now I Have Worked With A Lot Of Terrific Directors, And I Don't Mean To Be Putting Any Of Them Below Their Own Station, But These Two, I Relish Working With Them.

I Always Tell My Kids If You Lay Down, People Will Step Over You. But If You Keep Scrambling, If You Keep Going, Someone Will Always, Always Give You A Hand. Always. But You Gotta Keep Dancing, You Gotta Keep Your Feet Moving.

I Think You Have To Be Left-brained, To A Certain Extent, To Understand Science. I Can Talk About It, But I Can't Do It.

I Was Very Lucky Once I Got Started With A Career. I Happened To Get Some Really Good Parts To Play With Some Really Good People To Play With.

So If I Believe In God, And I Do, It's Because I Think I'm God.

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

I Know American Football. I Know A Little Bit About Soccer. I Know Baseball, I Know Basketball. But, Rugby Is A Foreign Language.

I Can Only Be So Long Without Work Before I Start Getting Antsy.

I Can Remember When I First Got To Los Angeles . I Didn't Have A Car, I Didn't Have Any Money. I Was Walking The Streets, You Know, Trying To Get From Place To Place On Foot Almost. Sometimes, You Know, You Say, How Am I Ever Going To Get From Here To There? There Are A Lot Of People Still Having That Dream And Not Being Able To Get There. So You Never Know. The Idea Is To Keep On Tap Dancing, Though.

I Believe In Helping The Planet Survive, And That Includes Reaching Out To Help Some Of The Disappearing Creatures Whose Habitats We're Destroying. It's Up To Us To Somehow Reverse That Trend. I Don't Know How We'll Achieve It, But We Need To.

Give Me Something Interesting To Play And I'm Happy.

I Had Gone To School To Work On Technique And Found It Wasn't Something That Was Really Worthwhile To Me, Although It Probably Was.

I Gravitate Towards Gravitas.

I'm Not One Who Can Write Out A Speech And Remember All The Names Of The People That You Need To Thank Because You Need To Thank All Of Those People.

It's What I Learn From The Great Actors That I Work With. Stillness. That's All And That's The Hardest Thing.

It's Seldom That You Get To Work With One Director More Than Once. I've Worked With Clint Eastwood Three Times, But That's The Only One That's Happened With, Simply Because I Adore His Work.

Costume Is Always An Asset. Normal Costume You Have A Lot To Say About - If You're Wearing Suits Or Ties, And What Color You Want, And How It's Going To Be Cut, And Stuff Like That, And Whether Or Not You're Going To Wear A Hat, And Blah, Blah, Blah. But, When You're Wearing A Special Costume, And Of Course, Costume Is Probably The Second Ingredient In Character, Script Being First, I Always Find That The Costume Does A Lot To Cement Your Character, To Put It Firmly In Mind.

I Got My First Job As A Card-carrying Actor In New York In 1967. Before That, I Was A Very Desperate Wannabe.

And Finding The Hat, I Always Like To Find The Hat. And Then Props Just Dress The Set. It's All Fabulous.

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.

Well, Here’s A Scientific Question: Has Anybody Ever Seen Hard Evidence? What We Get Is Theories From Our Earlier Prophets. Now, People Who Think That God Invented Us Think That The Earth Can’t Be More Than 6,000 Years Old. So I Guess It’s A Question Of Belief. My Belief System Doesn’t Support A Creator As Such, As We Can Call God, Who Created Us In His/her/its Image.

And Some Places You Been Before Are So Great That You Don't Ever Mind Going Back. Some Places You Been Before You Don't Ever Want To Go Back, You Know, Like Montreal In The Winter.

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The Accident Was A Horrible Thing - But That Horrible Thing Made Chris, At The End Of His Life, Superman. It's A Happy Irony If There Is Such A Thing. I'm Proud To Have Known Him.

My Job, Personally, Is To Do As Much As I Can To Spread The Warning That If We're Not Careful, It Will End. The Problem Is, We Don't Think Beyond Our Immediate Needs.

It's Sort Of Well-known That Anytime Any Catastrophe Happens Anywhere In The World, They Can Count On The United States For Help.

I Just Wanted To Be An Actor. It's Better To Be Well-rounded.

Nelson Mandela Was A Man Of Incomparable Honor, Unconquerable Strength, And Unyielding Resolve---a Saint To Many, A Hero To All Who Treasure Liberty, Freedom And The Dignity Of Humankind.

The Odds Are Lousy That I Actually Said Something Attributed To Me.

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.

You Can't Take Credit For Talent; You Can Only Take Credit For Using It.

The First Thing That Always Pops Into My Head Regarding Our President, Is That All Of The People Who Are Setting Up This Barrier For Him... They Just Conveniently Forget That Barack Had A Mama, And She Was White - Very White; American, Kansas, Middle Of America. There Is No Argument About Who He Is, Or What He Is. America's First Black President Hasn't Arisen Yet. He's Not America's First Black President. He's America's First Mixed-race President.

The Highest Power Is The Human Mind. That's Where God Came From And My Belief In God Is My Belief In Myself.

As You Grow In This Business, You Learn How To Do More With Less.

If You Want To See A Miracle, Be The Miracle

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.

If You're Not Living On The Edge Then You're Taking Up A Little Too Much Space.

Race Seems To Me To Be Less And Less A Subject Worth Discussing.

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.

People Need To Start To Think About The Messages That They Send In The Movies.

Working On Stage Is Really A Great Voice Developer.

I Have To Deal With Being Famous. Sometimes I Have To Tell People I Don't Do Autographs, Thank You Very Much. At Certain Places, I Refuse To Have My Photograph Taken.

Attacking People With Disabilities Is The Lowest Display Of Power I Can Think Of

One Day Very Soon, We'll Be Asked: What Did We Do. And We Will Say: We Did Everything We Could... We Have To... Because If We Don't There Won't Be Anyone Left To Ask. We Have Never Faced A Crisis This Big, That We Have Never Had Better Ideas To Solve. This Is Our Only Home. We Can Choose Today To Make A World Of Difference.

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'm Also Very Fond Of A Light Business Jet, So I'd Like To Get It Before It's Too Late.

Look At, Look, The Tea Partiers, Who Are Controlling The Republican Party....their Stated Policy, Publicly Stated, Is To Do Whatever It Takes To See To It That Obama Only Serves One Term. What's, What Does That, What Underlines That? 'screw The Country. We're Going To Whatever We Do To Get This Black Man, We Can, We're Going To Do Whatever We Can To Get This Black Man Outta Here... It Is A Racist Thing.

Someone's Going To Put The Clothes On You, And Part Of Being An Actor Is Wearing Costumes. Costumes Tell You An Awful Lot About Who You Are, So You Just, It's Nothing.

I've Just Never Been The Kind Of Actor That Things Have Stayed With. I've Never Needed To Carry A Character Off Stage.

If I Wasn't Acting, I Have No Clue What I'd Be Doing 'cause I Have No Other Talent.

A Scientist Sounds Like A Scientist Because The Things That Come Out Of Their Mouth Don't Stumble, That's All. If They [said], "and The, Um, A Microwave, Uh," You Know, Then You Don't Sound Right, But If You Can Just Get It Out Without Stumbling Then You're Going To Sound Fine.

From Early Childhood, My Thrust Was To Get Into The Movies.

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Ive Got A Lot Of Life Left In Me And I Want To Live It Doing Things I Like To Do.

I Once Heard A Wise Man Say There Are No Perfect Men. Only Perfect Intentions.

The Trick To Any Profession Is Making It Look Easy.

How Are We Going To Get Rid Of Racism? Stop Talking About It!

Black History Month

I Avoid Seeing Myself While I'm Working On Role So I Won't See "me."

Was I Always Going To Be Here? No I Was Not. I Was Going To Be Homeless At One Time, A Taxi Driver, Truck Driver, Or Any Kind Of Job That Would Get Me A Crust Of Bread. You Never Know What's Going To Happen.

Insanity Is Coasting Through Life.

My Earrings Are Worth Just Enough To Buy Me A Coffin If I Die In A Strange Place. That Was The Reason Why Sailors Used To Wear Them.

I Always Wanted To Be A Fireman, A Cop, An Indian Chief, A Doctor, A Lawyer. I Always Wanted To Be All These Things, So I Am Drawn To These Kinds Of Characters.

Very Often, You Know, You Stop Walking Because You Say, 'well, I'm Tired Of Climbing This Hill. I'm Never Going To Get To The Top.' And You're Only Two Steps From The Top.

I Go On Vacation Strictly To Relax - To Kick Back With A Good Book And Do Nothing Else But Read, Sleep And Eat.

I Believe It Doesn't Really Matter Where You Work As Long As You Work. Keep Sharpening Your Teeth.

The Bigger Point Here Is That Golf Is A Good Metaphor For One's Life. The Challenge Of Golf For Me Is Trying To Learn New Rules. It's Something You Always Have To Work At; You Don't Get Perfect At Golf. It's The Never-ending Quest For Betterment.

The Public Feels That If It's On The Internet And You Can Access It, You Deserve It. You Haven't Committed Any Kind Of Crime. We May Even Have To Rename Piracy. But In Any Case, We Have To Confront It.

The Better The Actor, Usually The Safer You Feel Working With.

Let Me Be The First To Tell You, Drinking Alcohol Is The Worst Thing To Do In Cold Weather. Hot Soup Is The Best Because The Process Of Digesting Food Helps To Warm You Up.

The Best Way To Guarantee A Loss Is To Quit.

I Don't Get Off On Romantic Parts. But I Often Think If I Had Had My Dental Work Done Early On, Well, Maybe.

I Like The Character Roles. Somewhere Back There I Really Came To The Conclusion In My Mind That The Difference Between Acting And Stardom Was Major. 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.

When I Was Growing Up, I Didn't See Me In The Movies Except In Certain Lesser Roles. If It Wasn't Funny, I Wasn't There. Then Sidney Poitier Came Along, And He Wasn't Funny. He Was Just Good. There's Me. So That Was My Pattern.

In My Home, Who Is My Boss? If You Ask My Wife She'll Say Certainly Not Her. She Claims That She Can't Make Me Do Anything And So She's Not My Boss. I Am. I'm Pretty Sure, Maybe.

They're Talking About Kids Who Have Grand Mal Seizures, And They've Discovered That Marijuana Eases That Down To Where These Children Can Have A Life. That Right There, To Me, Says, 'legalize It Across The Board!'

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.

This Kid Came Up With Napster, And Before That, None Of Us Thought Of Content Protection.

I Find That If I Hold Your Hand, It Transfers An Energy First. I Have A Sense Of How You Feel. That's Important To Me Trying To Become Another Person. I Have A Lot Pressure To Bring A Character To Life In Any Kind Of Real Sense.

Flip On The News And Watch How We Treat The Batman Theater Shooter And The Oregon Mall Shooter Like Celebrities. Dylan Klebold And Eric Harris Are Household Names, But Do You Know The Name Of A Single ‘victim’ Of Columbine?

I Grew Up In The South But I Started Dancing In My Twenties When I Got Out Of The Air Force, And Studying Dance, You're Surrounded By Gay Guys All The Time. You Get To Know Them And You Have To Shift Gears!

Our Situation, With Global Warming And Air Quality And All Of That, Has Gotten To Be Catastrophic.

Marketing Only Really Works With Word Of Mouth.

I Do Know There Are A Lot Of People Who Seem To Be In My Corner, And That's, Of Course, Wonderful. I'm Really More Interested In The Nomination Than In The Award, Because I Think The Nomination Just Puts You Within A Group Of Outstanding Actors.

Marijuana Prohibition Is Just The Stupidest Law Possible....jus T Legalize It And Tax It Like We Do Liquor.

All My Life, All My Life That I Can, As Far Back As I Can Remember, I Saw My First Movie When I Was Six Years Old. And Since Then I Wanted To Do That. I Wanted To Be A Part Of That.

Let Me Tell You About Being Executive Producer. It Is Not A Job, It's A Title. Don't Go Around Asking Executive Producers What They Do Because They Don't Do Anything, Alright?

I Knew At An Early Age I Wanted To Act. Acting Was Always Easy For Me. I Don't Believe In Predestination, But I Do Believe That Once You Get Where Ever It Is You Are Going, That Is Where You Were Going To Be.

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 Measure Yourself By The People Who Measure Themselves By You.

The Best Way To Confront, Or Deal With, Technological Innovation Is To Keep Moving Technologically.

Every Job's A Challenge. The Challenge Is To Do It And Make It Look Right, Like You Belong There - Wherever That Is.

I Don't Have Anybody Telling Me What To Say. I Have People Who Would Suggest, Maybe, That I Shouldn't Do This, That Or The Other, But That's Strictly Up To Me.

I Don't Do Cold. My Reaction To Cold Is Drastic. I'm A Southern Boy.

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

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

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.

One Universe, Four Forces, Billions Of Galaxies. The Precision And Complexity Of Our World Is Enough To Make Even The Famous Cosmologist Go Just A Little Bit Crazy. How Does It All Fit Together? Is There A Single, Overarching Design To The Cosmos? And If We Find It, Will We Glimpse The Mind Of God?

We Humans Are More Concerned With Having Than With Being.

There Are Things That I Would Like To Do, But I Make A Big Distinction Between Liking To Do Something And Wanting To Do Something. If There's Something That I Want To Do I've Done It. If There's Something That Comes Up That I Want To Do I Will Do It.

Is There A Movie I Think I Should Have Won The Oscar For? Yeah. All Of Them.

I Never Think About Awards Or Anything Like That When I Do A Job. I Was First Named A Best Actor When I Was 12 Years Old And It Doesn't Really Mean Anything When You Get Down To It, Because There Is No Best. I Don't Get All That Involved. My Chest Puffs Up As Much As I Can Puff It Up But I Am Not Trying To Be Better Than The Person I Am Acting With. I Am Trying To Be At Least As Good. That's How It Works.

Growing Up In Mississippi, I Realized That It Was Separate And Unequal And All That, But It Was Still A Safe Place.

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 Feel Fine, I Don't Care Who The Director Is. All You Have To Do Is Know What Your Doing - All Of Us - Everybody In The Business - That's All You Ask Anyone - You Know Your Job, I Know Mine, Let's Go Do It.

I Don't Think You're Going To Get Nominated Every Time You Jump Out Of The Box.

It Can Have An Enormous Effect Because Big Budget Movies Can Have Big Budget Perks, And Small Budget Movies Have No Perks, But What Is The Driving Force, Of Course, Is The Script, And Your Part In It.

You Can Make Anything Into A Play For The Simple Reason That The Human Mind Is One Of The Best Writers In The Business. So, If You've Got A Writer Who's Clever Enough To Give You Enough Clues, You Will Fill Out Every Blank Spot In A Play, Every Single One.

Don't Be Different Just For Different's Sake. If You See It Differently, Function That Way. Follow Your Own Muse, Always.

Learning How To Be Still, To Really Be Still And Let Life Happen - That Stillness Becomes A Radiance.

Insanity Is Being Shit On, Beat Down, Coasting Through Life In A Miserable Existence When You Have A Caged Lion Locked Inside And A Key To Release It.

Anyone Who Spends A Significant Amount Of Time With Me Finds Me Disagreeable.

Dr. Martin Luther King Is Not A Black Hero. He Is An American Hero.

I've Always Been Really Hot On Westerns. All My Life Growing Up, Cowboy, Cowboy, Cowboy.

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.

Your Best Posture Is Your Next Posture.

I'm Making A Great Effort Because Sometimes Life Is Not Enjoyable. Sometimes It's Painful And Sometimes It's Stressful, Sometimes It's Agonizing Even, So I Think Once You Get Around Those Humps: Strive For Pleasure And Peace.

Acting Means Living, It's All I Do.

African American

I Understand That When Gary Oldman Was In That Suit [batman], Sweat Would Just Drip Off Of Him Where They Had To Have Holes In The Gloves Or Something.

"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.

Doing Comedy Is As Easy As Doing Anything Else. You're Dependent Totally On The Material.

I Was Lucky In That When The Opportunity Came, I Was Prepared To Meet It.

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.

So We Say, Oh, My Goodness; We Think We've Found Another Earth-like Planet. We Will Start Trying To Figure Out How To Get There. And I Have This Strong Belief That Whatever We Think We Can Do, Whatever We Can Dream, We Can Do.

I Am Passionate About What Is Going On With The Oceans, Mainly Because We Are For Some Idiotic Reason, Really Screwing It Up. I Mean, We're Really Killing The Ocean. It's Like Putting Out The Sun. Without It, There Is No Us.

Get Busy Livin' Or Get Busy Dyin'.

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.

Stage Is Really Hard Work. You've Got To Do It Every Night. Not Like Doing It Once And Walking Away.

Literacy Could Be The Ladder Out Of Poverty

The Reason Actors, Artists, Writers Have Agents Is Because We'll Do It For Nothing. That's A Basic Fact - You Gotta Do It.

That's Your Job As The Actor, To Understand The Human Part Of The Character, To Make It Real.

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.

If Your Income On Films Or Whatever You're Producing Using Film Drops Below A Certain Level, Then You Don't Have Enough Money To Stay In Business. People Like To Say That This Is All Just About Making Money, But If You Don't Make Money, You Don't Make Anything.

But I Was 22 Before I Took My First Dance Class. I Had Never Been Athletic, So I Was Very Stiff; I Still Am. I Think What I Got Mostly From Dance Was Carriage.

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.

The Main Thing About Awards In Movies Is That They Can Serve As An Economic Surge For The Film. If You're Movie Gets Nominated For Any Award It Does It A Big Favour. People Might Go And See It Again... They Won't Give Up On It.

That's Really Just The Worst Part Of Life Really, You Get Bracketed Somewhere And The Next Thing You Know People Are Saying, 'no. No. That's Not The Type. Get Me So And So.' I'm Not A Type. I'm An Actor.

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.

I Was A B Student In Math, Simply Because My Teachers Liked Me, As An Actor.

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

Finding Yourself

Martin Luther King Jr. Is Remembered As Our Prince Of Peace, Of Civil Rights. We Owe Him Something Major That Will Keep His Memory Alive.

As Long As You Feel Like A Victim, You Are One.

I'm Not A Comedian. I Don't Make Things Funny If They're Not Funny. I Don't Invent Funny Stuff.

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

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

That Is A Big Turn-on For Me, A Director Who Knows What He's Doing And What He Wants, And Knows When He's Gotten What He Wants.

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.

I Don't Know What My Favorite Film Of Mine Is... But I Think The Most Important Film I Was In Was Glory.

No One Is Really A Method Actor, Everyone Has Their Way Of Going About It, Preparing For It, But Method Is Preparation, It's What You Do To Prepare. So My Method Is To Read The Script. Some Actors' Method Is To Read The Script A Hundred Times And In The Doing Of It, To Immerse Themselves In As Much Of The Reality As Possible. Me, I Believe Strictly In Acting. If I Am Out Of Breath, I'm Out Of Breath. I Ain't Running Nowhere.

If You're Comfortable On A Horse, You're Comfortable On A Horse. It's Like Being On A Motorbike.

People Say It's A Movie About Boxing, But... I Don't Agree At All. I Don't Think It's A Movie About Boxing. Boxing Is Like A Platform. It's Just A Stage Where This Is Played Out.

Did You Just Call Me Old? I Really Prefer The Word 'experienced'.

Never Give Up The Ganja.

When I Was A Kid, I Was A Cowboy. I Had A Cap Pistol, And I'd Get Up In The Morning And Strap It On Before I Got Ready.

I'm Always Trying New Things And Learning New Things. If There Isn't Anything More You Can Learn - Go Off And Die.

Trying New Things

Learning New Things

We’re Turning Everything On The Planet Into Food For Humans So We’re Cutting Down The Rainforests, Displacing All Of The Animals, And We’re Doing All This To Feed Humans... ... Imagine If There Were Only 2 Billion People Polluting? We’re Already Overpopulated. I Feel We’ve Become A Parasite On This Planet. If This Population Keeps Growing, We’ll Just Keep Devouring The Planet, And I Don’t Think It’s Going To Stand For That Very Long.

My Parents Were Working In A Hospital In Memphis. But I Didn't Live There For Any Length Of Time That I Remember. The First Thing I Remember Is The Town In Mississippi That I Live In Now, Charleston.

Still, It Can Be More Effective To Accomplish What You Need To Accomplish With The Minimum Effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He Doesn't Appear To Be Doing Anything. He Is So Still That You Can't See Him Working, But You Are Drawn Into His Character Through His Very Stillness.

I've Been Living With Myself All Of My Life, So I Know All Of Me. So When I Watch Me, All I See Is Me. It's Boring.

Donald Trump Is The Honey Boo Boo Of Rich People.

I Find It Difficult To Watch Myself... I Find It Boring.

I Was Raised In Mississippi, So Heat And Humidity Is My Bread And Butter. It Keeps Me Going. I Can't Stand Cold Weather.

Heat And Humidity

If You're Playing Somebody Who Is Not You, Then You Can Imagine That You Are That Person. You Can Feel Like He Feels, Move Like He Moves, Look Like He Looks - In Your Own Mind.

I Know People Are Saying They Like You. I'm Not Being Insulted Or Pushed Around Or Anything. People Are Coming Up Because They Like Me. Nevertheless, I Can't Be Everybody's...none Of Us Can. I Hate Saying No To People.

I Like The Blues A Lot. I Grew Up On It.

I Joined The Air Force. I Took To It Immediately When I Arrived There. I Did Three Years, Eight Months, And Ten Days In All, But It Took Me A Year And A Half To Get Disabused Of My Romantic Notions About It.

Not Only Do I Have To Live, Right, I Have To Get Some Cash For My Troubles - It's A Scary Thing, And People Need To Start To Think About The Messages That They Send In The Movies.

All You Have To Do Is Believe, Then You Will See Everything.

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.

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.

Which Lady Would I Like To Meet? Um, I Don't Know That There's Anybody Left That I Didn't Meet. But The One That I Really Wanted To Meet Died And That Was Princess Diana. I Really Wanted To Get To Know Her. I Like Her.

If You're Going To Play A Brain Surgeon, You Just Have To Learn How To Say The Words. You Don't Have To Go And Learn How To Cut Open Somebody's Scalp. I Think Acting Is Acting. Being Is Something Else.

I Have A Problem With Writer/directors, Personal. I Can't Work Well With Both Of Them On The Set, If Both Of Them Are Giving Instructions. Writers Tend To Be In Love With What They Wrote. You Can't Always Translate The Words Into The Meaning, Sometimes The Meaning Is Better Served Without The Words, Difficult To Make A Writer To Try To Understand That. It Gets, Sometimes, Tense.

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.

I'm Not Digging Tunnels, I'm Not Building Buildings. My Work Is Not Hard, My Work Is Refreshing, My Work Is Pleasant. The More The Better. Lying Around And Getting No Job Is Debilitating.

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.

There Is No Such Thing As Homophobia. It Is Not A Fear. It Is You Being An Asshole.

Most Of The Time It's The Role. Sometimes It's The Story And Sometimes It Just The Paycheck. It's The Little Movies That Come Out As Stories Or The Fact That I Have Work To Go Out, You Know What I'm Saying, You Can Only Be Out So Long Without Work, You Start Getting Antsy.

I Was Always Ambitious. I Always Wanted To Be More Than I Was....i Always Wanted To Be A Movie Actor.

How Do We Change The World? One Random Act Of Kindness At A Time.

Changing The World

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

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.

Someone's Always Going To Come Down On The Side Of The Fence.

It Seems To Me That I Never Grow Unless I'm Actually Working With Other Actors Who Have Shed Whatever Shell It Is That Keeps Them Insulated From Each Other.

Working With Others

When I Was Getting Close To Being Accepted For Pilot Training, I Was Allowed To Get In A Jet Airplane. I Sat There Looking At All Those Switches And Dials And I Got The Distinct Feeling That I Was Sitting In The Nose Of Bomb. I Realized My Fantasies Of Flying And Fighting Were Just That - Fantasies.

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