Joe Morton

“You have to be a little bit of a masochist to be an actor.”

“I think that science fiction has always been a way to comment on the present.”

“You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, darling.”

“The responsibility of a parent is to raise a child that can leave you.”

“For a black actor, you've got to be twice as good to get half as far.”

“You can't go to the library and look up 'how to play a command.' You have to find that within yourself.”

“To me, the most important thing is the sense of belonging, the sense of community, the sense of being a part of something that's larger than yourself.”

“I am not the POTUS. I am the command. I am never out of options.”

“Theater is my first love. I love the stage. I feel at home there.”

“My job is to bring a character to life, to make them believable, to make them human.”

“I've always been drawn to complex characters, people who are not easily defined.”

“To be an artist is to be in a constant state of discovery.”

“I think that the joy of acting is the joy of becoming someone else... It's a journey into the unknown.”

“Every role is a challenge. That's the beauty of it.”