Morgan Freeman
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185 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Morgan Freeman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I said, well, no. What if they put it under a napkin and just walk away? Ha, ha, ha. He said, you ring it up as a sale.
So I'm working, and I'm looking around at the other guys working in this place. Hoodlum to the core. Everyone's on the grip. These guys are not working for no $49 a week. So the manager was a black guy, and I cornered him in the dressing room and said, okay, how does this work? Yeah.
A guy comes in and he orders a cup of coffee and a hamburger. So you give him a cup of coffee, the hamburger, you ring up the cup of coffee.
Slashing prices. And then you keep count of how much you've got in the cash register. And when it gets to be like a five or $10, all you have to do is take that $10. Ruffle that $10 up. Never put your hand in your pocket. Just fold it up and then get the coffee holder. Coffee pot. Oh, get the coffee pot. Yeah, because Big Ern is in the bank.
I was bringing home about $100 a week, but they were getting on to this whole thing at some point. Because a guy would come by periodically and just check the cash register. And if there were more money in there than the receipt shows, somebody's going to have to pay for it. I didn't like any part of that. Here I am stealing and this isn't going to last very long. So I quit.
I didn't quit because I had something else to do. I quit because I didn't want to get caught stealing. Yeah.
I didn't. So that was it. Here I am back on the street again. Now it's desperation time. Bendermite calls, says, we're going to go up to Stowe Playhouse and do A Taste of Honey. She's going to direct, and I'm going to star. Would you like to come along and do that? Yeah. Summer stock. Now I got a little job in Stowe for a month, so I'm excited. Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And black. Yeah. A guy gives me a boat. Guy comes along and says, you're Morgan Freeman. That's all I've heard since I hit town. Yeah, yeah. So that's when I started sailing with that little boat on our little reservoir in Stowe, Vermont. I was hooked like you wouldn't believe.
I suppose, yeah, but just taking advantage of what life offers me. When there's nothing to do, when I don't have any way of managing, you get depressed. I've had long periods of depression, not knowing when the next anything is going to come along. But in my dotage, I realized that something always did, something always does, something always will. You just keep marching.
You just don't go jumping out of windows or doing something that's going to get you in a slam or just to eat. So now, I am now hooked on this boat. I go into New York for some reason. And while I'm there, I go to a bookstore and I get a book on sailing, not tying. And while I'm there... I go to an audition for an off-Broadway play. This is the one you don't want to say. Yeah, yeah.
And I audition, and the guy says, well, thank you very much. And I go back to the show. A couple of weeks, they call. Would you come and audition again? So I get on Trailways and I go in our audition again. And I said, well, thank you very much. I really appreciate you coming back. And back in the show. A week or so later, I said, would you mind auditioning again?
The director of Slow Playhouse, a guy named Jim Leahy. See that? Remember his shit? It's incredible. Yeah, it's good. You've already listed more names than I currently hold in my head. He says, what? They want you to come in? No, no. Listen, I want you to be here for my fall season. Tell them no. So I told them, no. They said, you got the job. Yeah, yeah, right. You learn these lessons, right?
Right. So here I am now in an off-Broadway play. And we do the play. And the opening night, I meet Jeff Hunter. He says, you're pretty good. Would it be all right with you if I recommended you for certain things, for some jobs or something? Shit, yeah. Never had an agent. Then one of the producers of that play said, I was one of the ones who wouldn't hire you. And you're better than I thought.
I'm going to put you on Broadway.
And he did. Now, this is the way it happened. I got another job off Broadway, Manhattan Theater Club. Nice little play. We got pretty good response. I got great response. So that guy who was producer of that play was going to take this little play to Broadway, which they did, for which I got kudos, playing a wino, a drunk. The play might have lasted a week. That's it. Yeah.
Well, they just produced it right out of existence. It wasn't there on the stage like it was when we had it off Broadway. The only cast member that was the same with me. That lasted about a week, but I got good press. Now I'm on a New York scene. New York Magazine had a little section they used on the town. And there I was on the town. Oh, baby. That's cool. Great.
It almost doesn't get better, right? It gets better.
I like that answer. So now here comes the electric company.
So it's been going forever. Ever. Electric Company was the government would fund experimental television.
What if it didn't end? If it didn't end, you would not go anyplace. It's like actors who I know, really good actors, but they became spokesmen for a commercial. That's it.
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