American - Actor | October 18, 1947 -
It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.
Joe Morton
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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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Accolades are there to congratulate you but also to make you understand that it's not over. You now have to continue trying to improve the craft and keep going. It's not something to rest on.
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My father was in the service. His job was to integrate the Armed Forces overseas. So that meant we showed up at military bases in Okinawa or Germany, racially unannounced. That made me, in that particular society if you will, the outsider.
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With any villain, you have to see things from their point of view and understand that they think what they're doing will make the world a better place.
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I've never liked much of reality television, mostly because it involves humiliation.
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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.
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Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The Other, the first response by the mainstream, if you will, is to ostracize.
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Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.
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I think every villain basically thinks that he or she is doing something to make his world, or the world in general, a better place.
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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.
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I think people believe that I give an aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.
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