Joe Morton Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm not a big fan of young people.

Jen Kirkman

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It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.

Andrew Weil

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I'd like to do a contemporary London thing, working with like-minded people, possibly through improvisation.

Steven Mackintosh

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I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was.

Rod Steiger

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When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy, I just laughed. Funny was funny; I loved to laugh. I always liked people I found generally funny.

Michael Keaton

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I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.

Liz Phair

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I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

Javier Bardem

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Comic Con has become a very relevant venue for all films.

Jon Favreau

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I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

Brandy Norwood

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I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary.

Ashton Kutcher

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I don't know that there's more bullying or whether it's just more talked about. It seems to me that possibly that there's been a lot of bullying all the time, but at the moment, it's something that people are talking about.

Susanne Bier

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One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

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