Joe Morton Quotes
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In my opinion, it would be a lot better for the culture - meaning the culture of America - if there was more diversity in terms of storyline. In terms of the kind of content that you see about Americans of African descent on the screen.
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We've all grown up with 'Ozzie and Harriet,' 'Father Knows Best,' 'Eight Is Enough.' White families have always represented the universal family.
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Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.
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When you give your children certain life lessons, and they come and ask you for additional advice, you say to yourself, 'I've done my job,' and you'll continue to do your job.
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It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.
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If you've been on top of the food chain in the Armed Forces, that's who you are. You're used to dealing with your life in a particular way.
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I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.
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You make up your mind what part you want to read for and why. It's kept me focused - on what's important, what I want, and what I don't.
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In most science-fiction pictures, the black guy is either an engineer or a radio operator, and he is the first guy killed - gone from the movie.
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I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.
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My whole career has been a landmark. So I don't think about the pressure too much. I just go out and do, because I believe in it.
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By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.
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I know who Dick Gregory is; I knew what his accomplishments are. I certainly knew him as a comedian and an activist.
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With Trump, because of the kind of seemingly violent way that he talks about things and because he's on Twitter almost every single morning, I think it brings down the respect that we have for the White House and for the Oval Office in particular, so the expectation is anything can happen, and that becomes the norm, which is unfortunate.
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When we were bringing 'Raisin' onto Broadway, our first stop was at Arena in D.C. Several things struck me about being in D.C.: One was the enormous poverty around the capital at that time - it was 1973, '74 - and I was stunned by people literally living in poverty, with holes in their houses and other things.
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If you live a good life, that seems to be what really matters. If there is something afterwards, terrific. If not, you haven't lost anything.
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We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.
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I think theater is the strongest place to find what's missing in entertainment. Unfortunately, it pays the least.
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You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.
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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.
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I suppose I prefer kind of epic dramas like, oh, I don't know... 'Lawrence Of Arabia' or 'Apocalypse Now'; those are the movies that I have a tendency to be most fond of.
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I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.
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In the case of Papa Pope, certainly he's making his daughter's world and the world of the republic a much better place.
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It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actors.