Quote

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.

Morgan Freeman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Morgan Freeman
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 1
Actor
Aircraft Pilot
Beekeeper
Character Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Memphis
Tennessee
Shouldn
Telling
Anybody
Maybe
Would
People
Strictly
Suggest

More quotes by Morgan Freeman

Image
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.
Morgan Freeman
Image
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.
Morgan Freeman
Image
Freeman denied the claim that he was a “man of God”, saying that “the question of faith is whatever you actually believe is. We take a lot of what we're talking about in science on faith we posit a theory, and until it's dis-proven we have faith that it's true. If the mathematics work out, then it's true, until it's proven to be untrue.
Morgan Freeman
Image
There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.
Morgan Freeman
Image
I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.
Morgan Freeman
Image
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.
Morgan Freeman
Image
I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.
Morgan Freeman
Image
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
Morgan Freeman
Image
If we don't save the oceans, if we don't do something about what we're doing to the oceans, as well as the planet at large, we're going to be really sorry.
Morgan Freeman
Image
In the harshest place on Earth, ... love finds a way.
Morgan Freeman
Image
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
Morgan Freeman
Image
I'm easy going for the most part but sometimes in the morning if I didn't sleep well I can be kind of grumpy. But my grumpiness doesn't have that much to do with my dissatisfaction with my station in life.
Morgan Freeman
Image
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.
Morgan Freeman
Image
Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty
Morgan Freeman
Image
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.
Morgan Freeman
Image
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.
Morgan Freeman
Image
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.
Morgan Freeman
Image
I'm married, I've been married to the same woman for - well, I've been with the same woman for close to...long enough to fool around.
Morgan Freeman
Image
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.
Morgan Freeman
Image
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.
Morgan Freeman