Quotes from Morgan Freeman movies and TV shows - page 2 of 5

God: I now issue a new commandment: Thou shalt do the dance.

Jim: Look! We just want the money! You guys can walk away, we won't kill you.

Nelson Mandela: Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

Television Announcer: Tell us Mr. President, have you always been a rugby fan?
Nelson Mandela: People don't realise that I played rugby myself when I was a student at Fort Hare. It is a very rough game, almost as rough as politics.

Nelson Mandela: How do you inspire your team to do their best?
Francois Pienaar: By example. I've always thought to lead by example, sir.
Nelson Mandela: Well, that is right. That is exactly right. But how do we get them to be better then they think they CAN be? That is very difficult, I find. Inspiration, perhaps. How do we inspire ourselves to greatness when nothing less will do? How do we inspire everyone around us? I sometimes think it is by using the work of others.

Nelson Mandela: The Rainbow Nation starts here. Reconciliation starts here.

Nelson Mandela: You criticize without understanding. You seek only to address your own personal feelings. That is selfish thinking, Zindzi. It does not serve the nation.

Jason Tshabalala: There are four Special Branch cops in my office.
Nelson Mandela: Why, what did you do?

Nelson Mandela: We need inspiration Francois. Because in order to build our nation we must exceed our own expectations.

Brenda Mazibuko: I'm sorry, Madiba, but we've got problems everywhere we look: housing, food, jobs, crime, our currency. You can't keep interrupting affairs of state to placate a minority.
Nelson Mandela: But I must. Because that minority still controls the police, the army, and the economy. If we lose them, we cannot address the other issues.
Brenda Mazibuko: So, this rugby is a political solution.
Nelson Mandela: It is a human solution.

Bartok: There will be times where we are powerless to injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Bartok: Remember this Raiden - the wounds of honor, are self inflicted.

Sam: We have a problem. The rooms aren't gonna be ready for another year and a half. They're still remodeling. Archibald, did this topic come up when you made the reservation?
Archie: No, because you insisted on making the reservations.
Sam: I insisted, but then you insisted. And it is the second insister.
Archie: Sam.
Sam: That supersedes the.
Archie: Sam. I offered, you insisted.

Archie: I'm gonna find some damn water and take all my damn pills and get this party started.

Archie: We're all here to celebrate Billy marrying an infant.
Billy: She's not an infant.

Slevin: Ok, I'm under the impression that you're under the impression that I owe you 96,000 dollars.
The Boss: No, you owe Slim Hopkins 96,000 dollars. You owe Slim, Slim owes me... You owe me.

The Boss: I hired you to do a job. It wasn't supposed to look like a job. So you take out the Israelis, bomb the damn building and now the job that was not supposed to look like a job is beginning to look very much... like a job.

Slevin: Anything else you want to tell me?
The Boss: I suppose I don't need to say anything as trite and cliched as "go to the police and you're a dead man."
Slevin: I think you just did.
The Boss: I guess I did.

The Boss: That's all there is to it.
Slevin: Is that all there is to it?
Mr. Goodkat: Yup... That's all there is to it.

The Boss: Y-you? Nahh... You're dead. You're dead.