128 Quotes by Joe Morton

We've all grown up with 'Ozzie and Harriet,' 'Father Knows Best,' 'Eight Is Enough.' White families have always represented the universal family.

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

My whole career has been a landmark. So I don't think about the pressure too much. I just go out and do, because I believe in it.

I've played good guys for most of my career, and when I came out to California, I thought, 'I really would like to find some wonderfully intelligent bad guy to play.'

I think the responsibility that any actor has is to bring some truth to the work.

Most of my career I purposely spent doing good guys.

One of the beauties of working in Shondaland is that they make an effort to get to know who you are, so they're not giving you something that's going to be so far out of your comfort zone.

To work for Shonda Rhimes is heaven. It's been amazing.

Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The Other, the first response by the mainstream, if you will, is to ostracize.