Quotes by Morgan Freeman

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 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.

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.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I’d discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

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.

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.

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.

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