Morgan Freeman

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release 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.

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

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.

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.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

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.

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.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

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.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.