Morgan Freeman Quotes

It's fun finding your way to the performance instead of coming in and hoping to God you're impressing the director - and hoping you're delivering the lines right with no treatment beforehand.

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.

When they came to you for your line, you had to be ready and you had to get it in one.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.

If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

There's no better training than working on a soap opera because of the amount of hours, the amount of pages you do a day are unbelievable. It's the best training I had in terms of discipline.

I learn the lines and pray to God.

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

When you have a play, you have to be on every night.

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

No matter how good you might be in a movie, you'll never be any better. But in a play, I can be better next Tuesday. That's the thrill of it.

I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.