128 Quotes by Joe Morton

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    I don't know of any actor in any television show that I have ever seen who's given monologue after monologue in a television series.

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    You make up your mind what part you want to read for and why. It's kept me focused - on what's important, what I want, and what I don't.

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    By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

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    I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.

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    Part of the decision I made was to move very fluidly from one medium to the other, and so it has stayed as part of who I am. I don't know if I have a preference.

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    It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.

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    Because of 'Terminator 2,' you get not pigeonholed but circled as one of those guys who can understand their way through a movie like that and hold it down.

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    Republicans in the South... are trying to find ways, not so much to block black and brown people from voting, but to block black and brown people from getting people they want elected, which is a far more subtle thing to do.

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