Hell, you don't have to do any research to play a president. I mean, talk about a couple of scuzzy guys. Man, they were turds. But I was intrigued by the mind that would think this up and film it. Not any better, but still intriguing. And it turns out he's married, has these lovely kids. He's just this big bear of a man. Cuddly, even. It didn't take any persuading to convince me to do the film. When I got nominated for the Oscar [for Street Smart ], it put rocket boosters in my career.
Since childhood, all I wanted to do was make movies. I love the stage, but I wanted to be a movie actor. Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? All of them. I don't know what my favorite film of mine is But I think the most important film I was in was Glory It was my idea to just do The Electric Company for a couple of years and go on.
But you get trapped by that money thing. It's golden handcuffs. It gets a lot of people, including soap opera actors and commercial actors. Then, they don't want to see you in serious work. That was going to be me, having people come up to me saying "My kids love you! I was talking to Bob Hoskins when we were making Unleashed together. We were talking about the joy of doing bad guys. And he confirmed exactly what I was thinking. With bad guys you get to let it all out. All those dark places in your psyche?
You can let 'em go. When you play good guys, it's kind of boring. It's one note. Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it. I'm very worried about what's going on in the world at the moment because we have this Napoleonic president; by Napoleonic I mean he's a man who just seems to need to search himself.
It doesn't make sense. I don't have any love lost on Saddam Hussein. If he needs to be removed from office, fine. You have to find the right way to do it, but going to war, nah, with the people. To do what. What is the real reason? Because he's harboring weapons of mass destruction? So it is with North Korea. Why are we acting to acquiesce to this? We do not need the Iraqi oil. We have Kuwait oil. It's the same pool. That's why Kuwait's there. That's why Kuwait was set up.
You think that country could exist there without somebody backing it? We're talking about a piece of Iraq. So, we keep this. That's my noise. I am terribly upset about the whole thing. You know, I was hanging out with Sidney Poitier and we were trying to decide if he or I were the better actor. We decided it was me as I convinced the world I could sing. Freeman debuted on Broadway in in "Hello, Dolly! Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man.
And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. The American Indians have this saying.
It's a good day to die! You couldn't possibly try to entertain all of the people who seem to be offering you entertainment.
Because most of them want some compensation for it. I do have self-control. Once I realise that I've got to change something I just do it. If you wake up and the snow is knee-deep outside, you are not filled with rage. It's just something that you've got to cope with. If you're living in a situation it's the only situation that you know, and you've got to deal with it. I don't have to work. I could stop and never have to worry about paying the rent. I'm working for the joy of doing it.
Sometimes, you want to upset an audience so you can engage them. I've done so-called Hollywood films, and I know that it's all about wanting the audience to feel upbeat, give them a happy ending. But they also like complete stories. If your story's complete it doesn't have to have a happy ending. They say there's no fool like an old fool.
But blessings be upon my wife because I think without her, I'd be somebody's fool by now. 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. Making more than that as an actor was just unbelievable to me. I never went back to typing but had some real lean times in-between.
But I didn't have to go to work for anybody else. I didn't have to wash dishes, I didn't have to wait tables, I didn't have to drive a cab or wash cars. I deliberately left myself nothing to fall back on. If you've got a cushion, where you land, you stay. You can't climb a mountain with a net. If you've got the net, you'll let go. I work about half the year. I'm just a guy who enjoys his work and enjoys working with people who enjoy their work.
When that happens you get a bonding situation and if it come out with a good product, then that ties you even closer together. It's almost like a great love affair. I've never been a mechanic. Throughout my life, what I have been is an actor, a pretender.
I do have the wife and the family and the stuff like that but on the other hand, I'm - knock on wood - outstandingly healthy. I think we all have a private bucket list. It may not be written down, but I'm constantly checking them off. I just checked off Jack Nicholson. Every day was a holiday because I've been praying at the temple of Jack ever since Five Easy Pieces I had a chance to ride with him on the Warner Brothers plane with Clint [Eastwood].
He has a private pilot's license, which he earned at age 65, and co-owns and operates Madidi, a fine dining restaurant, and Ground Zero, a blues club, both located in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Freeman has publicly criticized the celebration of Black History Month and does not participate in any related events, saying, "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history. Freeman once said on an interview with 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace: "I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
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