Actors Quote by Michael B. Jordan

Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not…

— Chadwick Boseman

Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.

— Pearl Cleage

The fact that there aren't an abundance of African-American males that are getting lead roles [and] that are getting roles that have prominence on…

— Michael B. Jordan

When you start making a movie, people want to know: Who's the star power? And very early, I realized there's not a lot of…

— Jordan Peele

When it comes to action, I'd say Mel Gibson and Will [Smith] were great.

— Roland Emmerich

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote…

— Michael Caine

When most actors finally get to L.A., I think they expect to be the next Will Smith or Denzel Washington and that's not the…

— Andrea Hall

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

There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone.…

— Michael Jai White

Actors are a race.

— Mads Mikkelsen

So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as…

— Rachel True

Great African-American stars who can command major theatre and film roles in successful international projects are not uncommon: James Earl Jones, Denzel Washington, Halle…

— Paterson Joseph