Joe Morton Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BlackYouWhiteDramaPlayWhatever

It's bizarre, that feeling as an actor, at being in the mecca of the film world and seeing billboards for a TV show that you're in pretty much everywhere.

Joe Dempsie

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You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.

Andrew Forrest

YouTryPrimeMinistersRocketsPut

It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest of civilization, who have got a program. It's not blind violence. It's with a purpose. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want every westerner out of the Arab countries, Middle East and elsewhere.

John Reid

PurposePeopleSmallRestBlindOut

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

John Updike

WisdomI AmNowWhySixtySee

I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.

Skitch Henderson

BusinessNowStrangeRightRecording

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

Marvin Minsky

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I think that's something people need to convey because you see all these celebrity moms out there, and the perception is they can do it all, but they have sooo much help. And it's kind of an unfair image to project for many women, because it is really hard, and if you have help, you should indicate you have help.

Lisa Ling

WomenPeoplePerceptionThinkHelp

I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to try.

Phoebe Snow

MusicKnowTrySomethingGoingLike

I am very proud that Accenture is among corporate champions to be honored by the Women's Forum of New York for our mutual commitment to making a difference.

Pierre Nanterme

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Yeah, I'm very smart.

Sylvia Browne

SmartVeryYeah

In an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like authority of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do.

Noreena Hertz

AgeFeelSometimesAuthorityClearly

If I'm playing a bad guy, and I'm playing him evilly - I'm making him evil; I'm being evil because I want the audience to understand that he's bad - or if I have a line that's funny, I do it in a comedic way, that, to me, is a lie. It's dead when I watch it.

Richard Jenkins

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