Actors Quote by Gregory Hines

There were not a lot of roles for a black man like myself that were different. Then 'Top Boy' came. I read the script…

— Ashley Walters

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

— Wesley Snipes

All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of…

— Joe Johnston

I'm black and white, so either, sometimes, you're not considered by the breakdown of the script: you're not 'black enough' for this role. Or…

— Vanessa Morgan

A lot of black actors will sit there and go, 'Every role is about being a gangster' - then they get an opportunity to…

— Ashley Walters

It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just…

— Amandla Stenberg

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

It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're…

— John Cho

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

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black…

— Anonymous

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.

— Katori Hall

I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a…

— Kenneth Edmonds