Morgan Freeman is not "done yet."

The 74-year-old actor will be presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globe Awards this weekend.

The venerable leading man is elated to receive the honour, but Morgan still has plenty of thunder in him yet.

"I'm getting a lot of end-of-the-career awards, that lifetime achievement stuff. I'm beginning to feel like I'm being told, 'OK, time to hang up your cleats and sit down.'" Morgan told USA Today. "Once you start getting them, it's like, 'What do you what?! What is this "lifetime achievement"? Have I done it already? There's no more achieving for you?' You just ask, you know. You have to get up when they give these things to you and say, 'Now, wait a minute; I don't consider myself done yet.' "

Morgan stars alongside Christian Bale and Anne Hathaway in The Dark Knight Rises. Christopher Nolan's conclusion to his Batman franchise, which will be released in theatres this summer, has been a top-secret project from the start.

"If I tell you anything, I'd have to find you and kill you," Morgan joked. "Listen, when I got the script I live in Mississippi and that script was hand-delivered. Hand-delivered."

Morgan is elated to have participated in such a thrilling project.

"It's got surprises," he said. "It makes you sit up and take notice."

The Dark Knight Rises will be released in US theatres on July 20.

The 69th annual Golden Globe Awards will be held this Sunday January 15.