Joe Morton Quotes
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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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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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By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.
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I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 it might be interesting to give an Emmy to an outstanding background performance in either a comedy or drama series.
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I think many villains have the burden of not being very human.
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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 that, unfortunately, it appears that Donald Trump is trampling all over the Constitution.
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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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Most of my career I purposely spent doing good guys.
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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 would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.
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If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.
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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 different. I got beat up every day.
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I think, very often, we're addicted to procedurals, those good guy/bad guy shows, and the 'problem' with procedurals is they all follow the same formula: The bad guy does his thing, the good guy goes after him, and in most cases, the good guy figures out who did it and catches him.
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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.