Joe Morton Quotes
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If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.
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I don't think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.
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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 think that, unfortunately, it appears that Donald Trump is trampling all over the Constitution.
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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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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 was different. I got beat up every day.
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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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Most of my career I purposely spent doing good guys.
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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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With my background, I came out of the theater.
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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 love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.
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Dick Gregory used every syllable, every metaphor, every joke, every march, every incarceration, every hour of his life, to embarrass this country into providing a more perfect, perfect union.
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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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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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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 entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.
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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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The argument for '12 Years a Slave' was that - yes, it's a beautiful film. Beautifully shot, beautifully acted. It's a real story, and these stories should be told. The problem is, if they're the only stories being told, then it makes Americans of African descent - it puts them into that victim category. And that was my problem with the movie.
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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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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 would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.