Joe Morton Quotes

I was maybe one of two black kids in the drama department. It was, 'Well, you can't play this role because that guy has a white girlfriend or a white cousin or whatever.'

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• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

  

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• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  

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• We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.

  

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• It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

  

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• Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.

  

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• Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

  

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• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

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• There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.

  

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• According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

  

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• Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

  

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• People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.

  

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• We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

  

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• Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

  

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• I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

  

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• Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

  

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• That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.

  

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• Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

  

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• 'What I would give,' I thought, 'to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective.'

  

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• There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

  

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• I always loved Kate Winslet, but after you meet her you really love her because she's a cool chick.

  

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• Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

  

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• I was maybe one of two black kids in the drama department. It was, 'Well, you can't play this role because that guy has a white girlfriend or a white cousin or whatever.'

  

  Joe Morton
  • Kids
  • Guy
  • Black