Morgan Freeman

Film & Theater USA 1937 98 quotes

Narrator extraordinaire in The Shawshank Redemption, Freeman's soothing voice intoned quotable wisdom.

Quotes by Morgan Freeman

I'm not a fan of injustice.

Interview

I think it's important to be strong.

Interview

I'm just trying to live my life.

Interview

I think it's important to be happy.

Interview

I'm not a fan of war.

Interview

I think it's important to be peaceful.

Interview

I'm just trying to enjoy the ride.

Interview

I think it's important to be free.

Interview

I'm not a fan of ignorance.

Interview

I think it's important to be smart.

Interview

I don't want a path to follow. I want to make my own path.

Speech 2010

Learning how to be still, to really stop moving, is a great thing.

Interview 1994

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Interview 2009

I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

Speech 2008

The human race is a herd. Here we are, more than six billion of us, packed into this space of what would be one of the more foolish and improbable animal exhibitions that's imaginable.

Documentary Narration 2012

Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another.

Interview 2004

I have to keep doing me. I want to keep evolving.

Interview 2015

God is the silence. God is the rainbow. God is the laughter in a child's eyes.

Interview 2011

If you want to be an actor, learn your lines and show up on time.

Speech 1990

The world is a better place because of people like you.

Acceptance Speech 2000