Joe Morton Quotes

You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.

Joe Morton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors.

Jim McKay

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I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

May Sarton

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I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

John Lee Hooker

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The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

Robert Grosseteste

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It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.

John Vane

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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Soren Kierkegaard

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I enjoy being in movies, but my heart will always lie with the theatre.

Steven Berkoff

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I'll be a diehard bodybuilder until my last breath, but I want my brand and the movement we are creating to touch all aspect of the fitness community.

Ronnie Coleman

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Wishing there were more children's books like 'The Snowy Day' is a bit like wishing there were more grownup books like 'Anna Karenina.' There are only so many masterpieces out there.

Rumaan Alam

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A less healthy America is not going to be as productive.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it's hard to go back.

Jonathan Anderson

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