Black Quote by Bill Duke

My very first role was with James Earl Jones on 'Gabriel's Fire' on TV. He drove a Chevy Citation, which is the exact same…

— Leland Orser

I was the kid in the neighborhood that was directing everyone else. I was director from the time I was a child.

— James Gunn

It never occurred to me that I was hired because I was black. But it did occur to me that because I was black…

— Duane Jones

It was just a series of accidents that I became an actor. My first job was when a friend called and said he was…

— Ken Berry

I was the first black man on television.

— Scatman Crothers

I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall.

— Christine Lavin

The first several years I was an actor, I sort of eked out a living playing thugs almost exclusively until 'Robocop.'

— Miguel Ferrer

I was maybe one of two black kids in the drama department. It was, 'Well, you can't play this role because that guy has…

— Joe Morton

I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.

— Nicole Byer

The first director who ever allowed me to shoot a film for him was a male. He was a gay male. My first feature…

— Reed Morano

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a…

— Scott Bakula

I was in a theater company in Houston, Theatre Under the Stars, and I was involved in about 10 of their productions.

— Chandra Wilson