Happy Birthday Morgan Freeman!

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

Es ist die Verantwortung von allen, die in Freiheit leben, ihre Meinung zu äußern. Immer!

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

Schauspielern ist Kinderkram gegen das Hochseesegeln. Die See kennt keinen Spaß.

Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.

Jetzt ist er schon 90, mein Gott. Und der Größte. Er ist einfach der Größte.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

Ich weiß, daß Träume nur in Erfüllung gehen, wenn man selbst etwas dafür tut.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

Es ist die Verantwortung von allen, die in Freiheit leben, ihre Meinung zu äußern. Immer!

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

I gravitate towards gravitas.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

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

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 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.

People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

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.

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

Black history is American history.