Explore Quotes by Morgan Freeman

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

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.

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.

I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.

Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.

These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

Well, here’s a scientific question: Has anybody ever seen hard evidence? What we get is theories from our earlier prophets. Now, people who think that God invented us think that the Earth can’t be more than 6,000 years old. So I guess it’s a question of belief. My belief system doesn’t support a creator as such, as we can call God, who created us in His/Her/Its image.

So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.

The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment.

The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president.

Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of

Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.

Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.

Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.

Ive got a lot of life left in me and I want to live it doing things I like to do.

Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

Never give up the ganja.

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.