Joe Morton Quotes
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It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.
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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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There's nothing better than an educated actor - not only educated in his craft but educated in the world.
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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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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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I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.
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I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.
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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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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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If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.
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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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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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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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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 don't think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.
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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 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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Most of my career I purposely spent doing good guys.
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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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I think that, unfortunately, it appears that Donald Trump is trampling all over the Constitution.
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I always feel like I'm running an hour and a half late.