Joe Morton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.
-- Joe Morton

#Jobs #Attention #Actors
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.
-- Joe Morton

#Play #Looks #Actors
With my background, I came out of the theater.
-- Joe Morton

#Theater #Backgrounds
When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.
-- Joe Morton

#Determination #Years #Play
One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Affleck is a friend, so it would be fun to work with him again.
-- Joe Morton

#Fun #Two #Would Be
If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them.
-- Joe Morton

#Giving #Want #Film
There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.
-- Joe Morton

#Thinking #Perspective #Needs
James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.
-- Joe Morton

#Technology #Curves #Use
If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.
-- Joe Morton

#Moving #Skills #Age
I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.
-- Joe Morton

#Play #Villain
If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.
-- Joe Morton

#Careers #Looks #Crafts
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
-- Joe Morton

#Character #Mean #Thinking
I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.
-- Joe Morton

#Believe #Thinking #Feet
I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.
-- Joe Morton

#Thinking #People #Black
I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.
-- Joe Morton

#Theatre
I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.
-- Joe Morton

#Thinking #Drug #Needs
I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.
-- Joe Morton

#Choices
Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.
-- Joe Morton

#Jobs #Television #Crafts
The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.
-- Joe Morton

#Character #Mean #Eight

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