Joe Morton

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

— Joe Morton

If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.

— Joe Morton

I always feel like I'm running an hour and a half late.

— Joe Morton

I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.

— Joe Morton

When it comes to certain portions of our history, we've just forgotten it all.

— Joe Morton

I was different. I got beat up every day.

— Joe Morton

I don't think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.

— Joe Morton

I don't live on the West Coast, so when I come out to work, I rent a house.

— Joe Morton

There's nothing better than an educated actor - not only educated in his craft but educated in the world.

— Joe Morton

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

— Joe Morton

In most science-fiction pictures, the black guy is either an engineer or a radio operator, and he is the first guy killed…

— Joe Morton

If you've been on top of the food chain in the Armed Forces, that's who you are. You're used to dealing with…

— Joe Morton

Part of the decision I made was to move very fluidly from one medium to the other, and so it has stayed…

— Joe Morton

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change,…

— Joe Morton

My tendency is to be quiet and to stay focused and in character. Not the entire time, but certainly to stay focused…

— Joe Morton

I think that, unfortunately, it appears that Donald Trump is trampling all over the Constitution.

— Joe Morton

It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love…

— Joe Morton

If you want someone who is sort of still, has a bit of an edge, is older, you get Morgan Freeman. If…

— Joe Morton

In my opinion, it would be a lot better for the culture - meaning the culture of America - if there was…

— Joe Morton

Perhaps, despite my objections, the success of films like: 'The Help,' 'Django,' 'The Butler,' or '12 Years a Slave,' will further persuade…

— Joe Morton

'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved…

— Joe Morton

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more…

— Joe Morton

I suppose I prefer kind of epic dramas like, oh, I don't know... 'Lawrence Of Arabia' or 'Apocalypse Now'; those are the…

— Joe Morton

Everywhere I go, someone stops me and says, 'Oh, you're that guy from 'Terminator 2.'' So, it's something that has, you know,…

— Joe Morton

Without mentioning any names, there was a film that was being done, and I ran into the producer on the plane. It…

— Joe Morton

'12 Years A Slave' is a film that is beautifully shot, wonderfully acted, and told in a compelling manner. However, there are…

— Joe Morton

What's lovely about 'Eureka' is that it's a sci-fi show, but it's not monsters from outer space; it's not craziness from outer…

— Joe Morton

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with…

— Joe Morton

With Trump, because of the kind of seemingly violent way that he talks about things and because he's on Twitter almost every…

— Joe Morton

The argument for '12 Years a Slave' was that - yes, it's a beautiful film. Beautifully shot, beautifully acted. It's a real…

— Joe Morton

With my background, I came out of the theater.

— Joe Morton

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

— Joe Morton

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

— Joe Morton

Most of my career I purposely spent doing good guys.

— Joe Morton

I think many villains have the burden of not being very human.

— Joe Morton

To work for Shonda Rhimes is heaven. It's been amazing.

— Joe Morton

I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.

— Joe Morton

When was the last time you saw a straight black love story without any guns?

— Joe Morton

It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.

— Joe Morton

I think the responsibility that any actor has is to bring some truth to the work.

— Joe Morton