Quotes by Joe Morton - Page 3

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.
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Cases
Figures
Good Bad Bad Guy
Bad Guy
The Problem With
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Actors are very often people who are placed in a position where they think they have to be grateful for the job and have no control over what they play and how they play it. I was not taught that way. I completely disagree with that. I think that you have more control than you think.
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Be Grateful
Disagree
No Control
Placed
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For all of the diversity in 'Scandal,' no one else would be sitting in a room wearing a T-shirt and chains and call a Southern white Republican president a 'boy.' And it's those kinds of things that Rowan has the freedom to say that nobody else could say within the confines of the show.
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Chains
Scandal
Southern
Confines
Nobody Else
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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.
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Framed
Hollywood
Lines
Racism
Segregation
Wind
Gone With The Wind
Guess
Produced
Pull
Purge
Realized
Serve
Story Lines
Successfully
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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.
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Category
Character Roles
Dustin Hoffman
Lead Character
Member
Successfully
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When we were bringing 'Raisin' onto Broadway, our first stop was at Arena in D.C. Several things struck me about being in D.C.: One was the enormous poverty around the capital at that time - it was 1973, '74 - and I was stunned by people literally living in poverty, with holes in their houses and other things.
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Arena
Broadway
Enormous
Holes
Time Me People
Time Me Living
Bringing
Capital
Houses
Onto
Raisin
Struck
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'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Chase
Unfortunately
Good Idea
Paycheck
Properties
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What's lovely about 'Eureka' is that it's a sci-fi show, but it's not monsters from outer space; it's not craziness from outer space. It's just about this community of people and what they do. These geniuses have sometimes done wonderful things and sometimes created global warming. It has this wonderful left-of-center sense of humor.
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Humor
Space
Craziness
Done
Global Warming
Lovely
Monsters
Outer Space
Sci Fi
Sense Of Humor
Wonderful
Wonderful Things
Show
Eureka
Geniuses
Global
Outer
Sense
Warming
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With Trump, because of the kind of seemingly violent way that he talks about things and because he's on Twitter almost every single morning, I think it brings down the respect that we have for the White House and for the Oval Office in particular, so the expectation is anything can happen, and that becomes the norm, which is unfortunate.
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Norm
Oval
Unfortunate
White House
Expectation
Oval Office
Seemingly
Talks
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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.
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Heat
No Idea
Scandal
Funny People Will
Channels
Occupy
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'12 Years A Slave' is a film that is beautifully shot, wonderfully acted, and told in a compelling manner. However, there are some questions, in my opinion, as to its importance. Paramount among those questions is, What does this scenario illustrate that we didn't know or haven't seen before? And why does such a film garner such popularity?
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Compelling
Importance
Paramount
Slave
Acted
Beautifully
Garner
Illustrate
In My Opinion
Manner
Scenario
Wonderfully
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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.
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Being Done
Ran
Producer
Plane
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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.
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Descent
Real Story
Slave
Acted
African
Category
Beautifully
Puts
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