Joe Morton Quotes
My father was in the service. His job was to integrate the Armed Forces overseas. So that meant we showed up at military bases in Okinawa or Germany, racially unannounced. That made me, in that particular society if you will, the outsider.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
-
Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
-
I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
-
You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
-
If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
-
I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
-
Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
-
Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
-
Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
-
I don't really yell at people.
-
Have the courage to act instead of react.
-
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
-
It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
-
I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
-
My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
-
We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
-
Who buys French cars? Not me.
-
Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
-
When I was a boy, the only thing which captivated me as much as music was the night sky.
-
With 'The Leftovers,' I was actually super, super lucky. It was my first major audition. When I came out, the casting director was kissing me on the face, and I was like, 'Oh, that's probably a good sign.'
-
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
-
I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
-
The most important job we have is not congressman or senator or governor. It's family and mother and husband and wife.
-
My father was in the service. His job was to integrate the Armed Forces overseas. So that meant we showed up at military bases in Okinawa or Germany, racially unannounced. That made me, in that particular society if you will, the outsider.
