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Joe Morton

American Actor

Born: Oct 18, 1947

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When you give your children certain life lessons, and they come and ask you for additional advice, you say to yourself, 'I've done my job,' and you'll continue to do your job. Joe Morton

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Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger. Joe Morton

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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

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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

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I think many villains have the burden of not being very human. Joe Morton

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There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done. Joe Morton

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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

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I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human. Joe Morton

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I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents. Joe Morton

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I would love to play the villain, but again, it's sort of what happens in this industry. Joe Morton

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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. Joe Morton

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I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much. Joe Morton

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Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums. Joe Morton

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far. Joe Morton

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If you have the skill, then you can move as you age. Joe Morton

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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.' Joe Morton

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I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death. Joe Morton

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Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in favor of gravitating to what you know? Joe Morton

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I was different. I got beat up every day. Joe Morton

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It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actors. Joe Morton

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It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn. Joe Morton

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I always feel like I'm running an hour and a half late. Joe Morton

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