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'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.
What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I'd like to get done.
Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.
If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.
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.
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 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.
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.
Acting means living, it's all I do...
Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.
As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.
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.
We want to give people what they want, when they want it. We are following the wave.