Joe Morton Quotes
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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 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 came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.
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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 love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.
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If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.
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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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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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I think that, unfortunately, it appears that Donald Trump is trampling all over the Constitution.
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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 there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.
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I think many villains have the burden of not being very human.
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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 would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.
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Most of my career I purposely spent doing good guys.
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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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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 theater is the strongest place to find what's missing in entertainment. Unfortunately, it pays the least.
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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 the responsibility that any actor has is to bring some truth to the work.
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I was different. I got beat up every day.
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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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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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The most frightening thing about playing Dick Gregory is I've never done stand-up before, and I had to learn how to be a stand-up comedian, which was a bit of a challenge.