Joe Morton Quotes
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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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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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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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I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.
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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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Most of my career I purposely spent doing good guys.
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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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If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.
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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 think it might be interesting to give an Emmy to an outstanding background performance in either a comedy or drama series.
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Perhaps, despite my objections, the success of films like: 'The Help,' 'Django,' 'The Butler,' or '12 Years a Slave,' will further persuade Hollywood to widen its view and edit its erroneous perception of what a commercial black film can look like.
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I think that, unfortunately, it appears that Donald Trump is trampling all over the Constitution.
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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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I think many villains have the burden of not being very human.
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Hollywood has successfully produced many films framed by anti-racist or pro-integrationist story lines. I'm going to guess that since 'Gone With The Wind,' Hollywood realized films about racism and segregation pull at the heartstrings of everyone and hopefully serve to purge a sense of guilt.
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Television has been really good to me in terms of the roles I've been able to get on TV as opposed to the roles I've gotten in film and in theater.
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In the 1980s, there was no category to stick me in. 'He sounds too smart' is what I was hearing. I realized that I had to become a member of the school of what I call 'ugly acting.' Which meant I wanted to do what Dustin Hoffman did very successfully: to play character roles, but lead character roles.
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If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.
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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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I was different. I got beat up every day.
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I think the responsibility that any actor has is to bring some truth to the work.
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I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.
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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.