Acting Quote by Danielle Bregoli

Do what you're happy with and not what you think whoever else is going to tell you about you 'acting a color.' You don't…

— Danielle Bregoli

Your president is black, well mine's green. I'm not acting, I'm living out live scenes.

— Don Trip

Growing up black, you are lied to and told to act in a way that isn't who you are.

— Rob Morgan

Like, you can't tell a certain race, like, 'You're supposed to act this way, and you're not supposed to act this way because of…

— Kreayshawn

I know I'm a black actor, but really, I'm an actor who happens to be black.

— Stephan James

I get these roles because I can act and thats it. Hopefully thats it. The less I talk about being black, the better.

— Idris Elba

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

— W. Kamau Bell

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

— Arna Bontemps

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with…

— Richard Masur

I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which…

— Jesse Williams

It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was…

— Issa Rae

Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

— Whoopi Goldberg