Morgan Freeman movie quotes

“Rugby is a very rough game, almost as rough as politics.”

Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

“If you think about the very nature of life - I mean, on the very beginning, the development of the first cell divided into two cells - the sole purpose of life has been to pass on what was learned.”
Morgan Freeman - Professor Norman

“Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.”
Morgan Freeman On Martin Luther King

“Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.”
Morgan Freeman

“It is our moments of struggle, that define us.”
Morgan Freeman - President Trumbull

“- Brenda Mazibuko: You're risking your political capital, you're risking your future as our leader.
- Nelson Mandela: The day I am afraid to do that is the day I am no longer it to lead.”
Adjoa Andoh - Brenda Mazibuko
Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

“If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them...” (continue)(continue reading)
Morgan Freeman - God

“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.”
Morgan Freeman

“You criticize without understanding. You seek only to address your own personal feelings. That is selfish thinking, Zindzi. It does not serve the nation.”
Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

“We humans are more concerned with having than with being.”
Morgan Freeman - Professor Norman

“You elected me your leader. Let me lead you now.”
Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

“Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law, and the law is man's feeble attempt to set down the principles of decency. Decency! And decency is not a deal. It isn't an angle, or a contract, or a hustle! Decency... decency is what your grandmother taught you. It's in your bones! Now you go home. Go home and be decent people. Be decent.”
Morgan Freeman - Judge Leonard White

“All fighters are pig-headed some way or another: some part of them always thinks they know better than you about something. Truth is: even if they're wrong, even if that one thing is going to be the ruin of them, if you can beat that last bit out of them they ain't fighters at all.”
Morgan Freeman - Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris

“You want to see a miracle? Be the miracle.”
Morgan Freeman - God

“Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm!”
Morgan Freeman - Principal Joe Clark

“No matter how filthy something gets, you can always clean it right up.”
Morgan Freeman - God

“You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.”
Morgan Freeman - Carter

A single mom who's working two jobs and still finds time to take her kid to soccer practice, that's a miracle. A teenager who says "no" to drugs and "yes" to an education, that's a miracle.
Morgan Freeman - God

“There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't.”

Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“Is there no sun in this cursed country?!”

Morgan Freeman - Azeem

“I don't know; every man has his breaking point.”

Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

The Lord said: "do whatever you have to do". And he didn't say "Joe, be polite".
Morgan Freeman - Principal Joe Clark

“- Daisy Werthan: Idella was lucky.
- Hoke Colburn: Yes'm. I expect she was.”

Jessica Tandy - Daisy Werthan
Morgan Freeman - Hoke Colburn

“- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: King me.
- Andy Dufresne: Chess. Now there's a game of kings.
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: What?
- Andy Dufresne: Civilized. Strategic...
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: ...and a total fuckin' mystery. I hate it.”

Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Tim Robbins - Andy Dufresne

“Apathy is the solution. I mean, it's easier to lose yourself in drugs than it is to cope with life. It's easier to steal what you want than it is to earn it. It's easier to beat a child than it is to raise it. Hell, love costs: it takes effort and work.”
Morgan Freeman - Somerset