Joe Morton Quotes
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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.
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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 was different. I got beat up every day.
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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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There's nothing better than an educated actor - not only educated in his craft but educated in the world.
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If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.
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I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.
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When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of the bushes and did terrible things to you.
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I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.
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I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.
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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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When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.
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I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.
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I don't think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.
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Without mentioning any names, there was a film that was being done, and I ran into the producer on the plane. It was a book that I really, really loved, and I said, 'I'd love to be a part of this.' And they made it clear that that was not going to be possible - for no particular reason other than that there was just no part for a black person.
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It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.
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Because of 'Terminator 2,' you get not pigeonholed but circled as one of those guys who can understand their way through a movie like that and hold it down.
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Most of my career I purposely spent doing good guys.
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If we're still talking about the same thing 40 or 50 years later, then that means we're not doing anything about it.
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I think that, unfortunately, it appears that Donald Trump is trampling all over the Constitution.
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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.'
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With my background, I came out of the theater.
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I always feel like I'm running an hour and a half late.
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If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.