404 Quotes by Morgan Freeman

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It’s all fabulous.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don’t get it, I can’t do it.

I don’t remember what my favourite comedy film is – truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.

I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn’t something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

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.

I am impatient with directors who don’t know what they want, and the way you don’t know what they want is because they want to do one more. “Let’s do one more.” So, “What for?” I guarantee you there’s not going to be a change.

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It’s acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don’t take anything away from it.

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.

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn’t appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can’t see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.