Morgan Freeman movie quotes

“Self-respect permeates every aspect of your existence. If you don't have respect for yourself, you're not gonna get it from anyone else.”
Morgan Freeman - Principal Joe Clark

“- Andy Dufresne: What about you? What are you in here for?
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Murder, same as you.
- Andy Dufresne: Innocent?
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: [shakes his head] Only guilty man in Shawshank.”
Tim Robbins - Andy Dufresne
Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“- Charlie: Where am I, Purgatory?
- Wesley: Worse, Texas!”
Morgan Freeman - Charlie
Chris Rock - Wesley

“Anybody can lose one fight, anybody can lose once.”
Morgan Freeman - Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris

“Choose your words carefully, words have a habit of being turned into policy.”

Morgan Freeman - DCI William Cabot

“- Dr. Alex Cross: Kate, I know how you feel, honestly.
- Dr. Kate McTiernan: Would you please stop treating me like I'm a victim? You think I'm some kind of tourist in all this because I wasn't raped? Every night when I go to sleep, I hear those women's voices. You want to save your niece? Guess what: so do I.”
Morgan Freeman - Dr. Alex Cross
Ashley Judd - Dr. Kate McTiernan

“- Dr. Alex Cross: Gone in the night.
- Dr. Kate McTiernan: At least now the FBI know who they're looking for. How far can he run?
- Dr. Alex Cross: It's not a question of how far. It's how long.”

Morgan Freeman - Dr. Alex Cross
Ashley Judd - Dr. Kate McTiernan

“I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.”
Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“- Jack: I had a date tonight, so I had to call and cancel...
- Cabot: Well, don't be stupid! Tell her where you're going. In fact, tell her who you work for. She'll be impressed.
- Jack: Ok. I work for the CIA, and the Director asked me at the last minute to come with him to Russia to do a nuclear arms inspection. ...Hello?
- Cathy: That is so...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ben Affleck - Jack Ryan
Morgan Freeman - DCI William Cabot
Bridget Moynahan - Dr. Cathy Muller

“- Andy Dufresne: Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Forget?
- Andy Dufresne: Forget that... there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: What're...” (continue)(continue reading)

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

“You will sing the school song upon demand, or suffer dire consequences!”

Morgan Freeman - Principal Joe Clark

“- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.
- Heywood: Shit. I could never get like that.
- Ernie: Oh yeah? Say that when you been here as long as Brooks has.
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Goddamn right. They send you...” (continue)(continue reading)

Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
William Sadler - Heywood
Joseph Ragno - Ernie

“- Hibble: For your understanding, Flora, this is rather... delicate. Do you know what the male and female were intending?
- Flora: Sure! I seen dogs in the street doing it!
- Hibble: Yes... well, it's not quite the same thing.
- Flora: How do you know? You're not a dog!”
Morgan Freeman - Hibble
Aisling Corcoran - Flora

“Multiply your anger by about a hundred, Kate, that's how much he thinks he loves you.”

Morgan Freeman - Dr. Alex Cross

“- John Quincy Adams: [referring to African slaves] What is their story, by the way?
- Theodore Joadson: Sir?
- John Quincy Adams: What is their story?
- Theodore Joadson: Why, they're… they're from west Africa.
- John Quincy Adams: No. What is their story? Mr. Joadson, you're from where originally?
- Theodore Joadson: Why, Georgia, sir.
- John...” (continue)(continue reading)
Philip Anthony Hopkins - John Quincy Adams
Morgan Freeman - Theodore Joadson

“The first night's the toughest, no doubt about it. They march you in naked as the day you were born, skin burning and half blind from that delousing shit they throw on you, and when they put you in that cell... and those bars slam home... that's when you know it's for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“It kill your brain cells, son. It kill your brain cells! Now when you're destroying your brain cells, your doing the same thing as killing yourself. You just doing it slower! Now, I say, if wanna kill yourself, don't fuck around with it. Go on and do it expeditiously!”

Morgan Freeman - Principal Joe Clark

“- Ned Logan: I sure do miss my bed.
- Bill Munny: You said that last night.
- Ned Logan: No, last night I said I missed my wife, tonight I just miss my dadgum bed.”
Morgan Freeman - Ned Logan
Clint Eastwood - Bill Munny

“The trouble with being a teenager is you don't know nothing. The problem with teenagers is you think you're smarter than people who already been down the road you're traveling.”
Morgan Freeman - Principal Joe Clark

“- Det. Davey Sikes: He ain't choosing them just for their congeniality.
- Dr. Alex Cross: Ordinarily, they don't, but I think our guy is a little different.
- Det. Nick Ruskin: How so?
- Dr. Alex Cross: I think killing's not his ulterior motive. This guy's a collector. I bet these women are alive.”

Alex McArthur - Det. Davey Sikes
Morgan Freeman - Dr. Alex Cross
Cary Elwes - Det. Nick Ruskin

“- Pvt. Trip: Nigger, you better get your hands off me!
- Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins: Ain't no niggers around here! Understand?
- Pvt. Trip: Oh, I see, so the white man give you a couple a stripes, and suddenly you start hollerin' and orderin' everybody around, like you the massa himself! Nigger, you ain't nothin' but the white man's dog!”
Denzel Washington - Pvt. Trip
Morgan Freeman - Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins

“- Detective Taylor: Neighbors heard them screaming at each other, like for two hours, and it was nothing new. Then they heard the gun go off, both barrels. Crime of passion.
- Somerset: Yeah, just look at all the passion on that wall.”
Daniel Zacapa - Detective Taylor
Morgan Freeman - Somerset

“- Dr. Alex Cross: He makes absolutely no attempt to hide them and the way they were killed, very revealing. That last long walk through the woods.
- Agent Kyle Craig: Marching to their fate.
- Dr. Alex Cross: Exactly. The rape, cutting off their hair.
- Agent Kyle Craig: It's a punishment.
- Dr. Alex Cross: Maybe for violating some trust.”

Morgan Freeman - Dr. Alex Cross
Jay O. Sanders - Agent Kyle Craig

“- Andy Dufresne: I have no enemies here.
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Yeah? Wait a while. Word gets around. The Sisters have taken quite a likin' to you. Especially Boggs.
- Andy Dufresne: I don't suppose it would help if I told them that I'm not homosexual.
- Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Neither are they. You have to be human first. They don't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tim Robbins - Andy Dufresne
Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“There must be a con like me in every prison in America. I'm the guy who can get if for you; cigarettes, a bag of reefer, if that's your thing, a bottle of brandy to celebrate your kid's high school graduation, damn near anything within reason. Yes sir, I'm a regular Sears and Roebuck.”
Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding