Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando. — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you're playing is. — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
In New York, people are pretty cool, and you don't catch a lot of grief. But in certain spots, man, it's over. If I… — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
There was a guy that was friends with my father, a very well-known and powerful hustler on the Eastern seaboard. He was a very… — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
My father marched in Selma. My father was there in Alabama. That's where I was born. My birth certificate says 'colored.' It does not say I'm African-American or black. So for me, those are real realities that are not subject to opinion. — Orlando Jones Copy Share
The only reason I wanted to do 'MADtv' was because I grew up reading 'Mad Magazine' because I'm a comic-book nerd. — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
People choose whatever projects they've seen that I've done over the years, and whichever one is their favorite is the only one they care… — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
I've been in fandom for a really long time. Back in the day, you had to go to a con to engage in fandom,… — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
I think it's impossible to be a young black male from the South, born to an era I was born in, and not have… — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
I'm tired of cookie-cutter monolithic representation of black folks. — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
