404 Quotes by Morgan Freeman

If you look back on your life and where you started from it’s like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It’s like now I can’t believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.

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.

I remember saying to my agent, “Listen, everybody’s going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there.” And his advice to me was, “I wouldn’t do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they’ll send you.” And sure enough, they did.

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.

I think one of the things when you’re casting children is you’re also casting their parents.

I’ve never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.

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.

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.

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.