Morgan Freeman

Highest Rated: 100% The C Word (2016)

Lowest Rated: 0% The Contract (2006)

Birthday: Jun 1, 1937

Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Morgan Freeman has enjoyed an impressive and varied career on stage, television, and screen. It is a career that began in the mid-'60s, when Freeman appeared in an off-Broadway production of The Niggerlovers and with Pearl Bailey in an all-African-American Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. He went on to have a successful career both on and off-Broadway, showcasing his talents in everything from musicals to contemporary drama to Shakespeare. Before studying acting, the Memphis-born Freeman attended Los Angeles Community College and served a five-year stint with the Air Force from 1955 to 1959. After getting his start on the stage, he worked in television, playing Easy Reader on the PBS children's educational series The Electric Company from 1971 through 1976. During that period, Freeman also made his movie debut in the lighthearted children's movie Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow? (1971). Save for his work on the PBS show, Freeman's television and feature film appearances through the '70s were sporadic, but in 1980, he earned critical acclaim for his work in the prison drama Brubaker. He gained additional recognition for his work on the small screen with a regular role on the daytime drama Days of Our Lives from 1982 to 1984. Following Brubaker, Freeman's subsequent '80s film work was generally undistinguished until he played the dangerously emotional pimp in Street Smart (1987) and earned his first Oscar nomination. With the success of Street Smart, Freeman's film career duly took off and he appeared in a string of excellent films that began with the powerful Clean and Sober (1988) and continued with Driving Miss Daisy (1989), in which Freeman reprised his Obie-winning role of a dignified, patient Southern chauffeur and earned his second Oscar nomination for his efforts. In 1989, he also played a tough and cynical gravedigger who joins a newly formed regiment of black Union soldiers helmed by Matthew Broderick in Glory. The acclaim he won for that role was replicated with his portrayal of a high school principal in that same year's Lean on Me.Freeman constitutes one of the few African-American actors to play roles not specifically written for African-Americans, as evidenced by his work in such films as Kevin Costner's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), in which he played Robin's sidekick, and Clint Eastwood's revisionist Western Unforgiven (1992). In 1993, Freeman demonstrated his skills on the other side of the camera, making his directorial debut with Bopha!, the story of a South African cop alienated from his son by apartheid. The following year, the actor received a third Oscar nomination as an aged lifer in the prison drama The Shawshank Redemption. He went on to do steady work throughout the rest of the decade, turning in memorable performances in films like Seven (1995), in which he played a world-weary detective; Amistad (1997), which featured him as a former slave; Kiss the Girls (1997), a thriller in which he played a police detective; and Deep Impact, a 1998 blockbuster that cast Freeman as the President of the United States. Following an appearance opposite Renee Zellweger in director Neil LaBute's Nurse Betty, Freeman would return to the role of detective Alex Cross in the Kiss the Girls sequel Along Came a Spider (2001). Freeman continued to keep a high profile moving into the new millennium with roles in such thrillers as The Sum of All Fears (2002) and Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, and the popular actor would average at least two films per year through 2004. 2003's Jim Carrey vehicle Bruce Almighty cast Freeman as God (a tall role indeed, and one he inherited from both George Burns and Gene Hackman). The story finds the Supreme Being appearing on Earth and giving Carrey temporary control over the universe - to outrageous comic effect. By the time Freeman appeared opposite Hilary Swank and Clint Eastwood in Eastwood's acclaimed 2004 boxing drama Million Dollar Baby, his reputation as one of Hollywo

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Now You See Me 3	Thaddeus Bradley	—	2019
No Score Yet	The Manuscript	Actor	—	2019
No Score Yet	March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step (L'empereur)	Narrator	—	2018
5%	Just Getting Started	Duke Diver	—	2017
49%	Going in Style	Willie	$45.1M	2017
No Score Yet	The Words That Built America	Actor	—	2017
100%	The C Word	Executive Producer Narrator	—	2016
25%	Ben-Hur	Ilderim	$26.4M	2016
34%	Now You See Me 2	Thaddeus Bradley	$65.1M	2016
25%	London Has Fallen	Speaker Allan Trumbull	—	2016
No Score Yet	The Hunting of the President: Redux	Narrator	—	2016
No Score Yet	Cold Warriors	Actor	—	2016
28%	Momentum	Senator	—	2015
46%	Ted 2	Patrick Meighan	$63.9M	2015
47%	5 Flights Up	Executive Producer Alex Carver Producer	—	2015
14%	Last Knights	Bartok	—	2015
No Score Yet	JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness	Actor	—	2015
66%	Dolphin Tale 2	Dr. Cameron McCarthy	—	2014
67%	Lucy	Professor Norman	$108.6M	2014
86%	BB King: The Life of Riley	Narrator	—	2014
20%	Transcendence	Joseph Tagger	$23.1M	2014
81%	Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar	Narrator	$10.7M	2014
No Score Yet	The Last White Knight	Actor	—	2014
96%	The LEGO Movie	Vitruvius	$244.9M	2014
No Score Yet	JFK: A President Betrayed	Narrator	—	2013
45%	Last Vegas	Archie	$51.5M	2013
50%	Now You See Me	Thaddeus Bradley	$117.7M	2013
52%	Oblivion	Beech	$89.1M	2013
48%	Olympus Has Fallen	Speaker Trumbull	$98.7M	2013
No Score Yet	We The People	Actor	—	2013
87%	The Dark Knight Rises	Lucius Fox	$448.2M	2012
30%	The Magic of Belle Isle	Monte Wildhorn	$66.9k	2012
81%	Dolphin Tale	Dr. Cameron McCarthy	$65.1M	2011
98%	Born To Be Wild	Narrator	$25.1M	2011
71%	Red	Joe Matheson	$89M	2010
No Score Yet	The Eastwood Factor	Narrator	—	2010
No Score Yet	The Last Full Measure	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	For Love of Liberty	Actor	—	2010
76%	Invictus	Nelson Mandela Executive Producer	$37.5M	2009
No Score Yet	The Maiden Heist	Charles Executive Producer Producer	$0.5M	2009
No Score Yet	Prom Night in Mississippi	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	Thick as Thieves (The Code)	Keith Ripley	—	2009
No Score Yet	The People Speak	Actor	—	2009
94%	The Dark Knight	Lucius Fox	$533.4M	2008
71%	Wanted	Sloan	$134.3M	2008
40%	The Bucket List	Carter Chambers	$93.5M	2007
94%	Gone Baby Gone	Jack Doyle	$20.4M	2007
40%	Feast of Love	Harry Stevenson	$3.5M	2007
23%	Evan Almighty	God	$100.3M	2007
No Score Yet	e2: Energy	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	African American Lives 2	Actor	—	2007
63%	10 Items or Less	Him Executive Producer	$69.8k	2006
No Score Yet	Greasy Rider	Actor	—	2006
0%	The Contract	Frank Cordell	—	2006
0%	Edison (Edison Force)	Ashford	—	2006
No Score Yet	Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters	Actor	—	2006
51%	Lucky Number Slevin	The Boss	$22.5M	2006
No Score Yet	African American Lives	Actor	—	2006
88%	Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D	Neil Armstrong	$32.6M	2005
53%	An Unfinished Life	Mitch Bradley	$8.6M	2005
74%	War of the Worlds	the NarratorNarrator	$234.2M	2005
94%	March of the Penguins	SprecherNarrator	$77.2M	2005
84%	Batman Begins	Lucius Fox	$204.2M	2005
66%	Unleashed	Sam	$24.4M	2005
No Score Yet	Blues Divas	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Slavery and the Making of America	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Rameses: Wrath of God or Man?	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	America Beyond the Color Line	Actor	—	2004
90%	Million Dollar Baby	Eddie `Scrap-Iron' Dupris	$100.5M	2004
No Score Yet	Hope Springs Eternal: A Look Back at 'The Shawshank Redemption'	Actor	—	2004
74%	The Hunting of the President	Narrator	—	2004
16%	The Big Bounce	Walter Crewes	$6.4M	2004
No Score Yet	Decisions That Shook the World	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	Guilty by Association	Lt. Redding	—	2003
49%	Bruce Almighty	God	$242.6M	2003
34%	Levity	Executive Producer Miles Evans	—	2003
30%	Dreamcatcher	Col. Abraham Curtis	$33.8M	2003
No Score Yet	Last of the Mississippi Jukes	Actor	—	2003
No Score Yet	The Art of Romare Bearden	Narrator	—	2003
59%	The Sum of All Fears	DCI William Cabot	$118.5M	2002
31%	High Crimes	Charlie Grimes	$41.5M	2002
No Score Yet	Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War	Narrator	—	2002
No Score Yet	Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature	Actor	—	2001
31%	Along Came a Spider	Alex Cross Executive Producer	$73.6M	2001
49%	Under Suspicion	Capt. Victor Benezet Executive Producer	—	2000
83%	Nurse Betty	Charley	—	2000
No Score Yet	Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows	Actor	—	2000
No Score Yet	Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist	Host	—	1999
No Score Yet	Water Damage	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	Mutiny	Executive Producer	—	1999
48%	Deep Impact	President Beck	—	1998
41%	The Big Hit	Boy in Hotel Lobby	—	1998
76%	Amistad	Theodore Joadson	—	1997
29%	Kiss The Girls	Dr. Alex Cross	—	1997
No Score Yet	The Long Way Home	Narrator	—	1997
28%	Hard Rain	Jim	—	1997
88%	Hurricane Streets	Director	—	1997
16%	Chain Reaction	Paul Shannon	—	1996
43%	Moll Flanders	Hibble	—	1996
No Score Yet	Cosmic Voyage	Narrator	—	1996
No Score Yet	National Geographic Explorer	Narrator	—	1996
80%	Seven (Se7en)	Det. William Somerset	—	1995
59%	Outbreak	General Billy Ford	—	1995
91%	The Shawshank Redemption	Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding	—	1994
80%	Bopha!	Director	—	1993
96%	Unforgiven	Ned Logan	—	1992
39%	The Power of One	Geel Piet	—	1992
No Score Yet	Rabbit Ears: Follow the Drinking Gourd	Storyteller	—	1992
No Score Yet	Rabbit Ears: The Savior Is Born	Narrator	—	1992
No Score Yet	Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories	Actor	—	1992
49%	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	Azeem	—	1991
No Score Yet	The True Story of Glory Continues	Actor	—	1991
16%	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Judge White	—	1990
93%	Glory	Rawlins	—	1989
62%	Johnny Handsome	Lt. A.Z. Drones	—	1989
81%	Driving Miss Daisy	Hoke Colburn	—	1989
69%	Lean on Me	Joe Clark	—	1989
58%	Clean and Sober	Craig	—	1988
No Score Yet	Clinton and Nadine	Dorsey Pratt	—	1988
No Score Yet	Fight for Life	Dr. Sherard	—	1987
69%	Street Smart	Fast Black	—	1987
No Score Yet	Resting Place	Luther Johnson	—	1986
0%	That Was Then...This Is Now	Charlie Woods	—	1985
No Score Yet	Marie	Charles Traughber	—	1985
No Score Yet	The Atlanta Child Murders	Ben Shelter	—	1985
No Score Yet	The Execution of Raymond Graham	Actor	—	1985
No Score Yet	The Gospel at Colonus	Actor	—	1985
62%	Teachers	Lewis	—	1984
22%	Harry & Son	Siemanowski	—	1984
No Score Yet	The Marva Collins Story	Clarence Collins	—	1981
90%	Eyewitness	Lt. Black	—	1981
No Score Yet	Death of a Prophet	Malcolm X	—	1981
76%	Brubaker	Walter	—	1980
No Score Yet	Attica	Hap Richards	—	1980
No Score Yet	Julius Caesar	Actor	—	1979
No Score Yet	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Uncle Hammer	—	1978
No Score Yet	Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! (Barney)	Afro	—	1971
No Score Yet	Best of the Best of The Electric Company	Actor	—	1971

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	Madam Secretary 2014	Director Executive Producer Chief Justice Wilbourne Chief Justice Frawley Producer	2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
No Score Yet	CBS This Morning 2012	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	The Story of Us With Morgan Freeman 2017	Host Executive Producer	2017
No Score Yet	Today 2017	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	The Late Late Show With James Corden 2015	Guest	2017 2016
No Score Yet	The Story of God With Morgan Freeman 2016-2017	Host Executive Producer	2017 2016
No Score Yet	Late Night With Seth Meyers 2014	Guest	2017 2016 2015
No Score Yet	The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2015	Guest	2017 2016 2015
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014	Guest	2017 2014
No Score Yet	The View 1997	Guest	2017 2015 2014
No Score Yet	The Talk 2010	Guest	2017 2016 2014 2013 2012 2011
No Score Yet	American Masters 2001	Narrator Actor	2016
No Score Yet	Harry 2016	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003	Guest	2016 2014
No Score Yet	Charlie Rose 2013	Guest	2015 2014
No Score Yet	Shakespeare Uncovered 2013-2015	Host	2015 2013
No Score Yet	Colbert Report 2005-2014	Guest	2014 2010
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014	Guest	2013 2012 2010
No Score Yet	Late Show With David Letterman 1993-2015	Guest	2012
No Score Yet	30 for 30 2009	Voice Narrator Executive Producer Producer	2010
No Score Yet	American Idol 2002-2016	Appearing	2010
No Score Yet	In Performance at the White House 2010-2016	Speaker	2010
No Score Yet	The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 1999-2015	Guest	2010
No Score Yet	The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2003	Guest	2006
No Score Yet	American Experience 1988	Voice Narrator	2003 1991
No Score Yet	Stephen Fry in America 2012	Appearing

Quotes from Morgan Freeman's Characters

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

Speaker Allan Trumbull:	Excited!!!!!!!!!!
Speaker Allan Trumbull:	Excited!

Professor Norman:

Can we therefore conclude that humans are concerned more with having ... than being?

Emmet:	Introducing the double-decker couch! So everyone can watch TV together and be buddies!
Wyldstyle/Lucy:	That is literally the dumbest thing I have ever seen.
Vitruvius:	Please, Wyldstyle, let me handle this. That idea is just. The worst.

Caroline:	Since when did you learn to write chinese?
Professor Norman:	Since a hour ago,

Dr. Cameron McCarthy:

That's chicks talking trash through the fence.

Dr. Cameron McCarthy:

Sometimes things have to be shaken up before they move ahead.

Dr. Cameron McCarthy:

Just because you're hurt doesn't mean you're broken.

Sloan:

Kill that motherfucker.

Professor Norman:

Imagine if we could access to 100%.

Professor Norman:

100 billion neurons per human, of which only 50 percent are activated. There are more connections in the human body than there are stars in the galaxy. We possess a gigantic network of information to which we have almost no access.

Professor Norman:

Sam:	There's nothing like self-discovery for turning a boy into a man.

Vitruvius:

This MasterBuilder will thwart The Kragle and save the realm And be the greatest, Most interesting, Most important person of all times. All of this is true Because it rhymes.

Vitruvius:

Emmett you didn't let me finish, because I died.

Vitruvius:

He's coming, cover your butt.

Dr. Will Caster:	You’re surprised to see me, Joseph?
Joseph Tagger:	Hmmm, that depends. Can you prove that you are self-aware?
Dr. Will Caster:	Well that’s an interesting question. Can you prove to me that you are?

Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:

(last lines) (Narrating) No matter where he is, I thought you should know what knda man that your father really was.

Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:

(first lines) (Narrating) Only ever met one man that I wouldn't wanna fight. When I met him and he was already the best cut man in the business. Started trainin' and managin' in the sixties, but never lost his gift.

Agent Buchanan:	You think it's really him?
Joseph Tagger:	At any rate, his mind is evolving erratically. I'm not sure it matters anymore.

Fox:	And yes, Mr. Wayne, it does come in black.

Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:

Boxin' is about respect. Gettin' it for yourself, and takin' it from the other guy.

Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:

She grew up knowin' one thing; she was trash.

Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:

Anyone can lose one fight, anybody can lose once, you'll come back from this you'll be the champion of the world.

Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:

See the way she did that? Sugar Ray could do that. That's girl's got Sugar!

Maggie Fitzgerald:	Will you tell him I'm real sorry?
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:	No. I will do no such thing, Maggie.

Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:

It seems like there are Irish people everywhere, or people who wanna be.

Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:

There's a magic in fightin' battles beyond endurance.

Vitruvius:	The prophecy, I made it up.
Emmet:	What?! So I'm not the special?

Emmet:	O.K., what would Lord Business least expect us to do?
Spaceman Benny:	Build a spaceship?
Vitruvius:	Kill a chicken?
Uni-Kitty:	Marry a marshmallow!
Emmet:	No! To follow the instructions.

Emmet:	O.K., what would Lord Business least expect us to do?
Spaceman Benny:	Build a spaceship?
Vitruvius:	Kill a chicken?
Uni-Kitty:	Marry a marshmallow!
Emmet:	No! To follow the instructions.

Vitruvius:

You got this, bro.

Vitruvius:

I know that sounds like a cat poster, but it's true.

Wallace:

Life's a bitch ain't it? You think you can swim until you jump into the deep end of the pool, then it's oh shit where are my water wings?

Emmet:	Introducing the double decker couch! So everybody can watch TV together and be buddies!
Wyldstyle/Lucy:	That is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Vitruvius:	Let me handle this Wyldstyle. That idea is just the worst.

Vitruvius:

I liked Emmet before it was cool.

Hoke Colburn:	(driving Daisy to Mobile) Did I ever tell you about the first time I've ever been outside the state of Georgia.
Hoke Colburn:	Did I ever tell you about the first time I've ever been outside the state of Georgia.
Miss Daisy Werthan:	No, when was that?
Hoke Colburn:	Oh, a few minutes ago.

Hoke Colburn:	Hey, there, Oscar, Junior... how you boys doin' this mornin'.
Oscar:	How's the old lady treatin' you.
Hoke Colburn:	Lord, I tell you one thing... she should do know how to throw a fit! (Hoke, Oscar and Junior break out in laughter)
Hoke Colburn:	Lord, I tell you one thing... she should do know how to throw a fit!
Miss Daisy Werthan:	What's so funny?
Hoke Colburn:	Nothin', Miss Daisy. We just carryin' on.

Miss Daisy Werthan:	Idella was lucky.
Hoke Colburn:	Yes, ma'am. I expect that she was.

Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:	Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:	Get busy living or get busy dying.

Archie:

These Red Bull/vodkas are strange. I feel like I'm getting drunk and electrocuted at the same time!

Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:

I'd like to think that the last thing that went through his head, other than that bullet, was to wonder how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him.

Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:	Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:	Get busy living or get busy dying.

Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:	hope is a dangerous thing my friend,it can kill a man...
Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:	Hope is a dangerous thing my friend,it can kill a man...
Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:	Hope is a dangerous thing my friend, it can kill a man...
Andy Dufresne:	hope is a good thing maybe even the best of things and good things never die.
Andy Dufresne:	Hope is a good thing. Maybe even the best of things and good things never die.

General Edward Clegg:	I am ordering you to stand down!
Speaker Allan Trumbull:	News flash, asshole, I don't work for you.

Frankie Dunn:	(Eddie has his feet up on his desk) You got big holes in your socks.
Frankie Dunn:	You got big holes in your socks.
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:	Oh, no, they're not that big.
Frankie Dunn:	Didn't I give you some money for some new ones.
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:	These are my sleepin' socks. My feet like a little air at night
Frankie Dunn:	But how come you're wearin' them in the daytime then.
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:	Because my daytime socks got too many holes in them.

Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:

(talking to Frankie) Don't say that. Maggie walked through that door with nothin' but guts. No chance in the world of bein' what she needed to be. It was because of you that she was fightin' the championship of the world. You did it. People die everyday, Frankie - moppin' floors, washin' dishes and you know their last thought is? I never got my shot. Because of you, Maggie got her shot. If she dies today that you know what her last thought would be? I think I did it all right.

Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:

Don't say that. Maggie walked through that door with nothin' but guts. No chance in the world of bein' what she needed to be. It was because of you that she was fightin' the championship of the world. You did it. People die everyday, Frankie - moppin' floors, washin' dishes and you know their last thought is? I never got my shot. Because of you, Maggie got her shot. If she dies today that you know what her last thought would be? I think I did it all right.

Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:	Frankie likes to say that the boxin' is a unnatural act, that everything in boxin' in backwards: sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back... But step back too far and you ain't fightin' at all
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris:	Frankie likes to say that the boxin' is a unnatural act, that everything in boxin' in backwards: sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back... But step back too far and you ain't fightin' at all.

Joe Clark:	You used to call me Crazy Joe well now they you can call me Batman
Joe Clark:	You used to call me Crazy Joe. Well now they you can call me Batman.

Joe Clark:	We sink, we swim, we rise, we fall - We meet our fate together.
Joe Clark:	We sink, we swim, we rise, we fall. We meet our fate together.

Joe Clark:

This is an institution of learning, ladies and gentlemen. If you can't control it, how can you teach? Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm!

Fox:	Nothin like a little air superiority!

William Somerset:	Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable. Just ask your husband.
David Mills:	Very true. Very, very true.

Miss Daisy Werthan:	You know your letters, don't you?
Hoke Colburn:	Oh yeah, yeah, I know my ABC's pretty good, just can't read.
Miss Daisy Werthan:	Stop sayin' that you're makin' me mad! If you know your letters, you can read. You just don't know you can read.
Hoke Colburn:	Ma'am?
Miss Daisy Werthan:	I taught some of the stupidest children, God ever put on the face of this earth and all of them could read well enough to find a name on a tombstone
Miss Daisy Werthan:	I taught some of the stupidest children, God ever put on the face of this earth and all of them could read well enough to find a name on a tombstone.

Miss Daisy Werthan:	Did you have the air-conditionin' checked? I told you to have the air-conditionin' checked.
Hoke Colburn:	I had the air-conditionin' checked. I don't know what's for. You never allow me to turn it on
Hoke Colburn:	I had the air-conditionin' checked. I don't know what's for. You never allow me to turn it on.
Miss Daisy Werthan:	Hush up!

Monte Wildhorn:

Imagination--the most powerful force ever made available to mankind.

Monte Wildhorn:	Nobody cares about a writer nobody reads.
Henry:	That's because you don't write.

Thaddeus Bradley:

The more you think you see, the less you'll actually notice

Thaddeus Bradley:

If you could reenact that look of absolute befuddlement, it would be perfect for the cover of my DVD.

Arthur Tressler:	Whatever you stand to make from this, I'll double it.
Thaddeus Bradley:	I stand to make $5 million.
Arthur Tressler:	Am I flinching?

Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:	Get bust living, or get busy Dying. That's god-damn right.
Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:	Get busy living or get busy dying. That's god damn right.

Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan:	How's my hair?
Speaker Allan Trumbull:	Not a hair out of place!
President Benjamin Asher:	Not a hair out of place!

William Somerset:

I am hugely overrated.

Batman/Bruce Wayne:	What about getting back into the plane?
Lucius Fox:	I'd recommend a good travel agent.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Without it landing.
Lucius Fox:	Now that's more like it, Mr. Wayne.

Bruce Wayne/Batman:	I figured you'd have shut this place down.
Lucius Fox:	Well, it was always shut down, officially.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	What about all this new stuff?
Lucius Fox:	After your father died, Wayne Enterprises set up fourteen different defense subsidiaries. For years I've been shuttering and consolidating all the different prototypes under one roof. My roof.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	Why?
Lucius Fox:	To keep them from falling into the wrong hands.

Bruce Wayne/Batman:	Oh, now you're showing off.
Lucius Fox:	Defense Department project for tight-geometry and pacification. Rotors are configured to maneuver between buildings without recirculation.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	What's it called?
Lucius Fox:	Oh, it has a long uninteresting Wayne Enterprises designation. I just took to calling it the Bat. And yes, Mr. Wayne, it does come in black. Works fine, except for the autopilot. It takes a better mind than mine to fix it.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	Better mind?
Lucius Fox:	Well, I was trying to be modest. A less busy mind. Yours.

Miranda Tate:	You brought me out here to show me this, Mr. Fox?
Lucius Fox:	Bear with me, Miss Tate. Please keep hands and feet inside the car at all times.
Miranda Tate:	[Fox uses a button and the office floor descends] This is it, isn't it?
Miranda Tate:	This is it, isn't it?
Lucius Fox:	The reactor is beneath the river so it could be instantly flooded in the event of a security breach.
Miranda Tate:	Is Bruce Wayne really that paranoid?
Lucius Fox:	I'm gonna plead the fifth on that one.

Batman/Bruce Wayne:	You were on the board?
Lucius Fox:	When your father ran things, yeah.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	You knew my father?
Lucius Fox:	Oh, yeah. Helped him build his train. Ah, here we are. Kevlar utility harness. Gas-powered magnetic grapple gun. The three hundred and fifty pound test monofilament. Wonderful project, your dad's train. Routed it right into Wayne Tower along with the water and power utilities. Kind of made Wayne Tower the unofficial centre of Gotham City. Of course, Earle let it go to rot. Here we are. Nomex survival suit for advanced infantry. Kevlar biweave, reinforced joints.

Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Bruce Wayne.
Earle:	What makes you think you can decide who's running Wayne Enterprises?
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Well, the fact that I'm the owner.
Earle:	What are you talking about? The company went public a week ago.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	And I bought most of the shares - through various charitable foundations, and trusts, and so forth. Look, it's all a bit technical, but the important thing is that my company's future is secure. Right, Mister Fox?
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	And I bought most of the shares - through various charitable foundations, and trusts, and so forth. Look, it's all a bit technical, but the important thing is that my company's future is secure. Right, Mister Fox?
Earle:	Right you are, Mister Wayne.
Lucius Fox:	Didn't you get the memo?

Earle:	Fox? I seem to remember firing you.
Lucius Fox:	You did. I got another job: Yours.
Earle:	On whose authority?
Earle:	On who's authority?

Lucius Fox:	My security clearance has been revoked.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	That wouldn't stop a man like you, would it?
Lucius Fox:	I suppose not.

Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Look, Mr. Fox.
Lucius Fox:	Yes, sir?
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	If you're uncomfortable...
Lucius Fox:	Mr. Wayne, if you don't want to tell me exactly what you're doing......when I'm asked, I don't have to lie. But don't think of me as an idiot.
Lucius Fox:	Mr. Wayne, if you don't want to tell me exactly what you're doing. When I'm asked, I don't have to lie. But don't think of me as an idiot.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Fair enough.

Miranda Tate:	Bruce!
Miranda Tate:	You okay?
Lucius Fox:	You picked a hell of a time to go on vacation, Mr. Wayne.

Bruce Wayne/Batman:	[to Fox] Tonight I need you.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	Tonight I need you.
Lucius Fox:	What for?
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	To get me back in the game.
Selina Kyle:	Sorry to spoil things, boys, but Bane wants these guys to himself.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	[Bruce looks at Miranda] I won't forget about you, Miranda.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	I won't forget about you, Miranda.
Miranda Tate:	I know.

Bruce Wayne/Batman:	How long until that core ignites?
Lucius Fox:	That bomb goes off in twelve hours.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	Unless we can reconnect it to the reactor.
Lucius Fox:	Can you get Miranda out of here?
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	Not tonight. I'm sorry.
Miranda Tate:	Do what's necessary.

Fox:	I like your girlfriend, Mr. Wayne.
Selina Kyle:	He should be so lucky.

Bruce Wayne/Batman:	Any move I make on Bane or the bomb, the triggerman sets it off.
Lucius Fox:	But they won't use radio or cell, too much interference. Infrared doesn't have the range. It would have to be a micro-burst, long wave.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	Could you block it?
Lucius Fox:	Yes. But I'll need the EMP cannon-guidance mount from the Bat. Remember where you parked?

Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:

Young Punk. Mr. "Rock and Roll." Cocky as hell. We liked him immediately.

Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:

I tell you, those voices soared. Higher and farther than anyone in a gray place dares to dream.

Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:

Get busy living, get busy dying.

Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:

I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I? don't wanna know. I would like to think they were singing about some thing was so beautiful it cant be expressed in words and make your heart ache because of it.I tell you this voice soared higher and farther than anybody in a Gray place dares to dream it is like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away. For the briefest moment every last man in Shawshank felt free.

John Rawlins:

[part of the prayer group] Lord, we stand before you this evening, to say thank you! And we thank you, father, for your grace, and your many blessings! Now I run off, leaving all my young'uns and my kinfolk, in bondage. So I'm standing here this evening, Heavenly Father, to ask your blessings on all of us. So that if tomorrow is the great getting-up morning, if that tomorrow we have to meet the Judgement Day, O Heavenly Father, we want you to let our folks know that we died facing the enemy! We want 'em to know that we went down standing up! Amongst those that are fighting against our oppression. We want 'em to know, Heavenly Father, that we died for freedom! We ask these blessings in Jesus' name. Amen!

John Rawlins:

That's right, Hines. Ain't no dream. We runaway slaves but we come back fightin' men. Go tell your folks how kingdom come in the year of jubilee!

Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Look, I'd rather Mr. Earle didn't know about me borrowing it...
Lucius Fox:	Mr Wayne, the way I see it, all this stuff is yours anyway.

Lucius Fox:

Nothing like the air superiority.

Lucius Fox:

Bruce Wayne. As I live and breath. What brings you out of Cryo-sleep Mr. Wayne?

William Somerset:

'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part.

Mitch Bradley:	Would you bury me next to Griffin?
Elinar Gilkyson:	Don't you think you ought to die first?

Mitch Bradley:	You want to know what I dreamed last night?
Elinar Gilkyson:	What?
Mitch Bradley:	I dreamed you weren't such a miserable son of a bitch.
Elinar Gilkyson:	That's not dreaming, it's wishful thinking.

Mitch Bradley:	I was dreamin' about the sea last night.
Elinar Gilkyson:	Didja get wet?
Mitch Bradley:	Walked right in. It felt like falling in love. Smelled like a woman. Tasted like one too.
Elinar Gilkyson:	Yer memory's not that good.

Fox:	Bruce Wayne. As I live and breathe. What brings you out of cryo-sleep, Mr. Wayne?
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	I see you haven't lost your sense of humor...even if you have lost most of my money.
Fox:	Actually, you did that. If you funnel the entire R and D budget into a fusion project that you then mothball, your company is unlikely to thrive.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	What are my options?
Fox:	Well, if you're unwilling to turn on the machine...
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	I can't. I can't, Lucius.
Fox:	Well, then sit tight. Your majority keeps Daggett at bay while we figure out a future for the energy program with Miranda Tate. She has supported the project all the way. She's smart, and quite lovely.
Fox:	We all just want what's best for you, Bruce. Show her the machine.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	I'll think it over.
Fox:	anything else
Fox:	nope why

Sloan:

Welcome... to the Fraternity. This gun you're holding belonged to your father; he could conduct a symphony orchestra with it.

Joe Matheson:

This used to be a gentleman's game.

William Somerset:	This guy's methodical, exacting, and worst of all, patient.
David Mills:	He's a nut-bag! Just because the fucker's got a library card doesn't make him Yoda!

David Mills:	Has he tried to speak or communicate in any way?
Dr. Beardsley:	Even if his brain were not mush, which it is, he chewed off his own tongue long ago.
William Somerset:	Uh... Doc, is there absolutely no chance that he might survive?
Dr. Beardsley:	Detective, he'd die of shock right now if you were to shine a flashlight in his eyes. He's experienced about as much pain and suffering as anyone I've encountered, give or take... and he still has hell to look forward to. Good night.

David Mills:	Yeah, a landlord's dream: a paralyzed tenant with no tongue.
William Somerset:	Who pays the rent on time.

God:	You can't kneel in the middle of the highway and live to tell the tale, son.

Bruce Nolan:	I'm dead?!?
God:	Nah, I'm just messin' with ya.
Bruce Nolan:	You think that's funny?!?
Bruce Nolan:	You think that's funny?

Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:	King me.
Andy Dufresne:	Ah chess.. now theres a game of kings, knights, strategy...
Ellis Boy "Red" Redding:	And a total fucking mystery. I hate it!