Actors Quote by Cuba Gooding, Jr

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

— Chadwick Boseman

I have never made a decision based on race and never will. I am admiring of my fellow peers, black film-makers and black actors…

— Cuba Gooding Jr

I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to…

— Ava DuVernay

Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black…

— Ava DuVernay

Hollywood, it seems, recognizes black film and black filmmakers, but like a distant lover, never close enough or long enough to forge a meaningful…

— Joe Morton

When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head.…

— Haile Gerima

Obviously I would love to see black filmmakers telling stories about black families, and I think that that's happening and will continue to happen…

— Taylor Russell

Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them.

— Ruby Dee

We [black actors] are more respected in Europe, because in Europe, I'm not a black actor - I'm an action star. In America, I'm…

— Fred Williamson

But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't…

— Terrence Howard

There has to be more opportunities for Asian or black actors.

— Adeel Akhtar

There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.

— Anthony Mackie

My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that…

— Tyrese Gibson

I like to work and there's no movies for actors, period, especially black actors. When white actors are like, 'Man, there's no work out…

— Marlon Wayans