Morgan Freeman Quotes

I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

I like to be good. I like being good at things. I wish that was valued instead of me being 'better' than another woman who also writes things and makes movies.

It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.

The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.

I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.

I don't get carried away by any praise; I know I have miles to go.

What's the point of being better than someone else?

I think, when you're great, not everyone's going to give you your props, and you can't really worry about that. In my eyes, I'm still climbing. I'm still taking myself to the next levels in my career, and that's fine with me. When it's time for my rewards, I will get them.

I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.

Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought. It encourages our business to be competitive in absolutely the wrong way. We're not sportsmen; we're not trying to come in first.

I think everything happens for a reason. With my game being the way it is, if I did shoot 80 percent, I'd be a harder person to deal with. It just keeps me humble. Just imagine me in my game shooting the same percentage that Reggie Miller shoots. I wouldn't even talk to you guys because I wouldn't have to.

To be honest, when you're younger and cooler, you say those sort of things don't mean anything, but then on the day when they pat you on the back and they say, "Look, mate, we're noticing what you're doing-thanks very much;' you think of the people who spent a life in the cinema and didn't receive that kind of accolade, and it's sort of a humbling experience. And it's very nice and all that. But it doesn't change the way I do things.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

I should be known for my work and not how I promote myself and what I do.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

I'm better than Olivier.

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

I was neither good in sports nor at studies, but I always wanted to stand out and be noticed.

Humility is the armour that you clothe yourself with throughout your life. We demean each other rather than lift up ourselves.