Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman is an American actor and narrator. Freeman won an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Supporting Actor with Million Dollar Baby, and he has received Oscar nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemptionand Invictus. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including Glory, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Seven, Deep Impact, The Sum of All Fears,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 June 1937
CityMemphis, TN
CountryUnited States of America
I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get me to open my mouth. And put my foot in it if necessary. I think the only thing I do that gives me any bragging rights in terms of energy conservation is sailing. Just using wind power.
Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words that were written on the page, and you have to make your marks. That's the work.
What I haven't talked about I don't intend to talk about.
I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.
If we say, 'Oh, my goodness ... we think we've found another Earthlike planet,' we will start trying to figure out how to get there. And I have this strong belief that whatever we think we can do, whatever we can dream, we can do.
I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.
I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife.
I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.
I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out.
Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.
You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.
My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.
The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.
I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me."