Morgan Freeman quotes
- From the movie: Lean on Me
“Hey, son... put something in your head, not on it!”
- From the movie: Se7en
I remember getting up one morning and going to work. Just another day like any other, except it was the first day after I knew about … pregnancy. And I felt this fear for the first time ever. I remember thinking: "how can I bring a child into a world like this? How can a person grow up with all this around them?".
- From the movie: The Bonfire of the Vanities
“Racist? You dare call me racist? Well I say unto you, what does it matter the color of a man's skin if witnesses perjure themselves. If a prosecutor enlists the perjurers. When a district attorney throws a man to the mob for political gain, and men of the cloth, men of God, take the prime cuts? Is that justice?”
- From the movie: Driving Miss Daisy
“- Daisy Werthan: What are you doing?
- Hoke Colburn: I'm tryin' to drive you to the store!” - From the movie: Clean and Sober
“The best way to break old habits is to make new ones.”
- From the movie: Along Came a Spider
“He's like a spider. I happen to like spiders.”
- From the movie: The Big Bounce
“God is just an imaginary friend for grown ups.”
- From the movie: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
“- Friar Tuck: Let us open a bottle and do our best to save each other's souls.
- Azeem: Alas, I am not permitted.
- Friar Tuck: Fine then, you talk, I'll drink.” - From the movie: War of the Worlds
“No one would have believed that our world was being watched by intelligences greater than our own. As men busied themselves about their various concerns, they observed and studied, the way a man with a microscope might scrutinize the creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”
- From the movie: The Bucket List
“- Carter: Forty-five years goes by pretty fast.
- Edward: Like smoke through a keyhole.” - From the movie: War of the Worlds
“From the moment the invaders arrived, they were undone, destroyed by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this Earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain.”
- From the movie: Lean on Me
“If we treat our students like animals, that's exactly how they'll behave!”
- From the movie: Bruce Almighty
“I did the same thing to Gandhi, he didn't eat for three weeks.”
- From the movie: Lean on Me
- From the movie: Million Dollar Baby
“Boxing is an unnatural act. Everything in boxing is backwards: sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back. But step back too far and you ain't fighting at all.”
- From the movie: Amistad
“I am embarrassed to admit that I was under the misconception that our Executive and Judicial Branches were separate.”
- From the movie: The Sum of All Fears
- Bill Cabot: What does the t-shirt say?
- Depot Worker: "I am a bomb technician, if you see me running... try to catch up". - From the movie: Bruce Almighty
“- Bruce Nolan: How do you make so many people love you without affecting free will?
- God: If you come up with an answer to that one, let me know.” - From the movie: Million Dollar Baby
“Boxing is about respect. Getting it for yourself, and taking it away from the other guy.”
- From the movie: Corrina, Corrina
“Those poor schmucks… they drive Chevrolets, shop at Wal-Mart, never miss an episode of Friends. These are Americans.”
- From the movie: Kiss the Girls
“- Dr. Alex Cross: I don't work like you. I don't... hate.
- Det. Nick Ruskin: You only wish you had the courage. Good night, sweet Kate.” - From the movie: High Crimes
- From the movie: High Crimes
“This is C.W. Grimes and associates. If you wanna talk to Charlie you should leave a message after the beep. If you wanna talk to Delilah, you should get your head examined!”
- From the movie: That Was Then... This Is Now
“- Bryon Douglas: What about the rules?
- Charlie Woods: There ain't no rules. There ain't no fuckin' rules.” - From the movie: Nurse Betty
“I'm a garbage man of the human condition.”
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