Morgan Freeman Quotes

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Age for me is just a number.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Judges don't age; time decorates them.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who's my age wouldn't have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn't necessarily be able to.

You know, I'm an old man, and there's always parts for old bald guys.

I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and more womanly. I look in the mirror and I don't feel or look 14 to myself, regardless of what other people think. I'm fine with it and it really doesn't matter what age I'm playing.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Being seventy is not a sin.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.