128 Quotes by 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 people that I work with.

I don't do theatre as much anymore because of the time it takes and it can't always pay me what I need to be paid at that particular time.

You get to work with incredible directors like a John Woo and James Cameron, so it's certainly not anything I'm going to complain about.

Television has been really good to me in terms of the roles I've been able to get on TV as opposed to the roles I've gotten in film and in theater.

It's like any other dream, everyone takes out their hammer and chisel and go after that rock until finally somebody finishes it.

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.

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.

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

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