Morgan Freeman

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.

I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.