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Joe Morton Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: October 18, 1947

Topics

Good You Looks Play Want Personal

There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.

Time Story More Fair Side Lines

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Writing Action Down Hand Fiction

I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came my way. It's what the studios wanted to make. Some of my friends were doing it, like Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and they offered me 'Talladega Nights.' It's just nice work if you can get it. It's a joyful day at work, making your friends laugh.

Work Day Me Laugh Comedy Wish

We keep spending money and sending it overseas when we should be developing American energy.

Money Energy American Keep Should

I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'

Jennifer Coolidge

Think American Pie Vain Should

I like very, very dramatic eyeliner: I take it all the way out to my eyebrows.

Way Out Eyebrows Dramatic Take Like

I get a lot from all young people. I make movies for young people. If I made pictures for people my age, no one would see them. I hang with young people all the time.

Age Time People Pictures Young See

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Strength Success Me You Goal Secret

My becoming a film actor was more a twist of tale than a chosen course because I dared not to think I could ever become an actor. I couldn't even walk up on a stage and say 'Thank you' when we were to receive trophies at our sports meets at college.

Sports Walk College Think Thank You

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

Learning Science People Think Help

I won't speak for the entertainment industry. I speak for Disney. I've seen people in the industry come to work every morning paranoid about what the other person or other company is doing. That means you're spending time and focus on somebody else's business instead of your own.

Work Business Morning Time Focus

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

Say Got Going Because Only Podium

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