Morgan Freeman Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Acting, Scripts, Approach

• I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

  Morgan Freeman

  Birthday, Believe, Age

• I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

  Morgan Freeman

  Stars, Character, Differences

• As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

  Morgan Freeman

  Business, Acting, Grows

• If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn how to cut open somebody's scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else.

  Morgan Freeman

  Cutting, Thinking, Play

• Acting means living, it's all I do.

  Morgan Freeman

  Mean, African American, Acting

  "Morgan Freeman: 10 things you need to know about the Oscar-nominated actor". www.mirror.co.uk. February 18, 2010.

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Mean, Acting, Troupe

  FaceBook post by Morgan Freeman from Oct 27, 2013

• I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.

  Morgan Freeman

  Choices, Acting, Not Sure

  "Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Heart, Acting, My Heart

  "Mo People: Morgan Freeman. Morgan Magic". Interview with Alex Gorton, www.mandarinoriental.com.

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Fall, Eye, Exercise

  "The Bucket List - Morgan Freeman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Kids, Play, Acting

  "Mo People: Morgan Freeman. Morgan Magic". Interview with Alex Gorton, www.mandarinoriental.com.

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Writing, Thinking, Acting

  "Morgan Freeman talks Unleashed!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 10, 2005.

• I never think about awards or anything like that when I do a job. I was first named a best actor when I was 12 years old and it doesn't really mean anything when you get down to it, because there is no best. I don't get all that involved. My chest puffs up as much as I can puff it up but I am not trying to be better than the person I am acting with. I am trying to be at least as good. That's how it works.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Wise, Office, Acting

  "Morgan Freeman Talks Lucky Number Slevin". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. March 31, 2006.

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Class, Acting, Movement

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

• If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

  Morgan Freeman

  Acting, Causes, Talent

  "Morgan Freeman Talks ISLAND OF LEMURS: MADAGASCAR, His Narration Process, Science, LIFE ITSELF, and More". collider.com. April 1, 2014.

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Acting, Stories, Quitting

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

• You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Morgan Freeman - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

• No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation, it's what you do to prepare. So my method is to read the script. Some actors' method is to read the script a hundred times and in the doing of it, to immerse themselves in as much of the reality as possible. Me, I believe strictly in acting. If I am out of breath, I'm out of breath. I ain't running nowhere.

  Morgan Freeman

  Running, Believe, Reality

  "Morgan Freeman - part two". The Gardian Interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  Character, Order, Acting

  "Caught in the Act: New York Actors Face to Face". Book by Don Shewey, www.donshewey.com. 1986.

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