Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
American actor and producer (born 1937)
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That voice — low, warm, unshakable — has narrated penguins crossing ice and mysteries threading the cosmos, but it belongs to an actor who spent decades proving he could carry a scene without saying a word.
Born June 1, 1937, in Memphis and raised in Mississippi, Freeman began acting in school plays, studied theater in Los Angeles, and spent his early career on stage. He gained recognition in the 1970s on the children's show The Electric Company, then earned an Obie for Coriolanus and a Tony nomination in 1978 for The Mighty Gents. His first Oscar nomination came with Street Smart in 1987; two more followed for Driving Miss Daisy and The Shawshank Redemption before he won Best Supporting Actor for Million Dollar Baby in 2004, playing a former boxer in Clint Eastwood's corner. The decades since ha…
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Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
To go somewhere and say: 'I have this really terrific movie, but I need some . . . money' - Good luck!
I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
You're going to relegate my history to a month? I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history.
We have 7 billion people on this planet.
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