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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.

Morgan Freeman

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Morgan Freeman
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 1
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