Morgan Freeman movie quotes

“You are not inferior. Your grades may be. Your school may have been. But you can turn all that around and make liars out of those bastards in exactly one hour, when you take that test, pass it, and win!”

Morgan Freeman - Principal Joe Clark

“You do what you are. You're born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you're good at, you don't take for granted. You don't betray it.”

Morgan Freeman - Alex Cross

“Go home. Put on a funny hat. Do whatever it is morons do.”
Morgan Freeman - Captain Victor Benezet

“Our purpose is to maintain stability in an unstable world - kill one, save a thousand.”
Morgan Freeman - Sloan

“Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend.”
Morgan Freeman

“It's a choice, Wesley, that each of us must face: to remain ordinary, pathetic, beat-down, coasting through a miserable existence, like sheep herded by fate - or you can take control of your own destiny and release the caged wolf you have inside.”
Morgan Freeman - Sloan

“Sometimes things are exactly as they seem.”
Morgan Freeman - Walter Crewes

“- Bruce Nolan: What if I need you? What if I have questions?
- God: That's your problem. That's everybody's problem. You keep looking up.”
Jim Carrey - Bruce Nolan
Morgan Freeman - God

“You can't kneel down in the middle of a highway and live to talk about it.”
Morgan Freeman - God

“- God: How do we change the world?
- Evan Baxter: One single act of random kindness at a time.”
Morgan Freeman - God
Steve Carrell - Evan Baxter

“- Robin Hood: What do you know of women?
- Azeem: Where I come from, Christian, there are women of such beauty, that they can possess a man's mind so that he would be willing to die for them.
- Robin Hood: Wait a minute. Is that why you were to be executed? Because of a woman?”
Kevin Costner - Robin Hood
Morgan Freeman - Azeem

“Get this disgrace to his race out of here!”

Morgan Freeman - Principal Joe Clark

“We have to be better than what they feared we would be. We have to surprise them with compassion, with restraint and generosity.”

Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

“Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“- Nelson Mandela: How do you inspire your team to do their best?
- Francois Pienaar: By example. I've always thought to lead by example, sir.
- Nelson Mandela: Well, that is right. But how do we get them to be better then they think they can be? That is very difficult, I find. Inspiration, perhaps.”
Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela
Matt Damon - Francois Pienaar

“- Somerset: This guy's methodical, exacting, and worst of all, patient.
- Mills: He's a nut-bag! Just because the fucker's got a library card doesn't make him Yoda!”
Morgan Freeman - Somerset
Brad Pitt - Mills

“There are more compelling motives than fear.”
Morgan Freeman - Hibble

“- Bruce Nolan: Is this heaven?
- God: No, this is Mount Everest. You should flip on the Discovery Channel from time to time.”
Jim Carrey - Bruce Nolan
Morgan Freeman - God

“- Daisy Werthan: You know your letters don't you?
- Hoke Colburn: Oh yeah, yeah I know my abc's pretty good, just can't read.
- Daisy Werthan: Stop saying that you're making me mad! If you know your letters you can read. You just don't know you can read.”
Jessica Tandy - Daisy Werthan
Morgan Freeman - Hoke Colburn

“- Hoke Colburn: Did I ever tell you about the first time I ever been outside the state of Georgia?
- Daisy Werthan: No, when was that?
- Hoke Colburn: Oh, a few minutes ago.”

Morgan Freeman - Hoke Colburn
Jessica Tandy - Daisy Werthan

“- Walter Crewes: Well, what are you doing sneaking around here?
- Jack Ryan: I'm not sneaking around. I was just thinking. Sometimes when I'm thinking it looks like I'm sneaking.”
Morgan Freeman - Walter Crewes
Owen Wilson - Jack Ryan

“Circumstances have taught me that a man's ethics are the only possession he will take beyond the grave.”
Morgan Freeman - Hibble

“Forty years I been asking permission to piss. I can't squeeze a drop without say-so.”

Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“Life will go on, we will prevail.”
Morgan Freeman - President Beck

“- Andy Dufresne: You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: No.
- Andy Dufresne: They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”
Tim Robbins - Andy Dufresne
Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding