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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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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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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 think the responsibility that any actor has is to bring some truth to the work.
Joe Morton -
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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I don't think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.
Joe Morton -
I don't know of any actor in any television show that I have ever seen who's given monologue after monologue in a television series.
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I think many villains have the burden of not being very human.
Joe Morton
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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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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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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.
Joe Morton -
I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.
Joe Morton -
When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.
Joe Morton -
I think that, unfortunately, it appears that Donald Trump is trampling all over the Constitution.
Joe Morton
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Most of my career I purposely spent doing good guys.
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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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I think theater is the strongest place to find what's missing in entertainment. Unfortunately, it pays the least.
Joe Morton -
I was different. I got beat up every day.
Joe Morton -
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.
Joe Morton -
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
Joe Morton
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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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In the case of Papa Pope, certainly he's making his daughter's world and the world of the republic a much better place.
Joe Morton -
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.
Joe Morton -
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.'
Joe Morton