Morgan Freeman Quotes

Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.

I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

I don't want to be a copy of anyone else.

I have my own thing going on; I don't want to imitate anyone else.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

The best way to be original is to be yourself.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.

Each individual's way is going to be different. Never follow anybody. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man. Once you start following somebody else, you become a carbon copy. You become an imitation.

The last thing the world needs is another boring person or another boring brand, so embrace all the things that make you different. Alter your clothes all you want, but don't you dare alter your inner freak - she's got your back as much as I do.

Stay Weird, Stay Different.

I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow what everybody else is doing. At the same time, I know when to be serious, but I know when to joke.

Follow your own weird.

Be different; be unique; be yourself.

I didn't set out to be unusual or different. I just wanted to do things my way.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.