Joe Morton Quotes
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You want to be challenged, so you feel like you want to get up and wrestle with the character or enjoy the character - especially with a TV show, because you know you could be doing it for a long time, so you want to make sure it's something you really enjoy.
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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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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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When I first came into New York City, what I did was, I didn't have very much money, and I couldn't afford pictures or a resume, so what I used to do is I would tear off the back of a matchbook, and I'd write my name and telephone number on the back of the matchbook.
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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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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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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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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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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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It's important to know, whether you're pro or anti the current president and what he's doing, that he's doing what he thinks is for the betterment of the country because his interest is to make this country a better place.
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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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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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I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.
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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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Dick Gregory used every syllable, every metaphor, every joke, every march, every incarceration, every hour of his life, to embarrass this country into providing a more perfect, perfect union.
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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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By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.
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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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It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.
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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 think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.
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I was different. I got beat up every day.
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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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The argument for '12 Years a Slave' was that - yes, it's a beautiful film. Beautifully shot, beautifully acted. It's a real story, and these stories should be told. The problem is, if they're the only stories being told, then it makes Americans of African descent - it puts them into that victim category. And that was my problem with the movie.