Quotes from Joe Morton

I've never liked much of reality television, mostly because it involves humiliation.

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

'Black film,' unless it's lucky enough or creative enough, or timely enough to build a life of its own, hangs subjacent to 'white film' on Hollywood's financial score board... aided and abetted by the supposition that so-called black film has no foreign market.

Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.

What you find with really good directors is that they kind of leave you alone. They've hired you because they know the kind of work you do and the sense of how you'd approach it. So usually, they'll just stand back and maybe give you a nudge once in a while in terms of something specific they might want in a particular scene.

I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.

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.

In the case of Papa Pope, certainly he's making his daughter's world and the world of the republic a much better place.

You want to be challenged, so you feel like you want to get up and wrestle with the character or enjoy the character - especially with a TV show, because you know you could be doing it for a long time, so you want to make sure it's something you really enjoy.

'Breaking Bad' - when I started watching that show, I thought it was terrific. I love the way it was shot. I love the writing. I love the arc of Bryan Cranston's character. I just thought that was just really, really a wonderful, wonderful show.

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 didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.

If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.

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

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

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

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 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.

I actually went to the university as a psychology major, and at orientation, they took us around the campus and took us to the theater for a skit. At the end of the skit, I literally could not get up out of my seat.

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

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.

Acting-wise, it's always exciting to come back for a third season of any TV show that you're working on.

If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them.

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.