Quotes by Joe Morton

About Joe Morton:

Joseph Thomas Morton, Jr. is an American stage, television, and film actor, known professionally as Joe Morton. He worked with film director John Sayles in The Brother from Another Planet (1984), City of Hope (1991) and Lone Star (1996). Other films he appeared in include Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Of Mice and Men (1992), Speed (1994), Apt Pupil (1998), What Lies Beneath (2000), Ali (2001), Paycheck (2003), Stealth (2005) and American Gangster (2007). In 2014, Morton won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, and is known for playing the role of Henry Deacon on the popular TV series Eureka.
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If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.

Joe Morton

Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the pe...

Joe Morton

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.

Joe Morton

I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.

Joe Morton

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

Joe Morton

I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.

Joe Morton

I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.

Joe Morton

I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

Joe Morton

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

Joe Morton

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

Joe Morton

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

Joe Morton

With my background, I came out of the theater.

Joe Morton

The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.

Joe Morton

Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.

Joe Morton

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

Joe Morton

I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

Joe Morton

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

Joe Morton

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

Joe Morton

One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Affleck is a friend, so it would be fun to work with him again.

Joe Morton

Author Bio

  • NameJoe Morton
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornOctober 18, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor