“There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.” YoungActorsBlackLimitationStigmaYoung Actors Author:Anthony Mackie
“All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.” RealCharacterActorsBlackWhiteRolesPagesScriptsUnexpectedBlack And WhiteTranslateReal CharacterSomething Unexpected Author:Joe Johnston
“A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black Brando. Before Eddie Murphy, there were two schools of acting for a black actor: Either you played it LIKE THIS or youplayeditlahkdis. He was the first black guy in a movie to talk like I am talking right now. That did not exist for black actors before him.” FirstsTwoSchoolGuyActorsBlackActingTalkingComedyRight NowMurphyBrandoBlack Guys Author:Scott Raab
“It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.” DoeDifferentFactsSeemsActorsBlackVirtueHollywood Author:Will Smith
“Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.” MomentsFilmFacesActorsBlackFilledSilentScreensSilent Films Author:Serge Daney
“I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of black and wanted to share his misery with you.” EndsWantedActorsBlackShareSeriousMiseryMeant To BeBeard Author:Stephen Colbert
“But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.” IfsMenHumansStoriesActorsBlackRaceHuman RaceBlack HistoryEliminating Author:Terrence Howard
“If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around.” IfsMenMayProblemActorsSocialBlackWhiteRaceClassStagePositionEvolutionWeightCastsProductionsExecutivesMixing Author:Howard Schultz
“Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.” PlayBeautifulActorsBlackLosesWalksActingWonderfulFrontsForestsLosing YourselfBackdropIbsen Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske
“I've really dreamed of doing television. All of us do television, coming up. But when I was coming up, television was a black hole for actors. Now, television has a certain cache. Now everybody wants to be on TV because they're doing adult dramas. If you're an actor, it's like, "Well, get me on television," because it's the only place you can do it and also make a living at it. If my kids need shoes, I better do a TV show because I damn sure don't make any money with independent films.” IfsWantNeedsWellsShowsKidsFilmCertainActorsBlackCan DoTelevisionTvsDramaAdultsIndependentShoesHolesDamnTv ShowsYou Can Do ItIndependent FilmBlack HoleCache Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine – vulnerability and strength – is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.” WorldHumansMadeNightActorsBlackHuman BeingsWhiteFemaleOppositesMalesSingersVulnerabilityDancerFeminineIntrigueMasculineIntriguingBlack WhiteMasculine And FemininePolar OppositesMale Female Author:RuPaul
“We [black actors] are more respected in Europe, because in Europe, I'm not a black actor - I'm an action star. In America, I'm a black actor.” ActionAmericaActorsStarsBlackEurope Author:Fred Williamson
“It's frightening enough with a male actor and not a stunt person. If you accidently punch him with the wrong hand, then you've cost them a week's work and they've got a black eye or a lot of money goes on CG to get rid of it. That was nerve wracking, but it was very civilized. Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.” IfsMenPersonsEnoughHandsSeemsEyeActorsBlackResponsibilityWeekGoes OnCostFaultsMalesMessCivilizedNervesFrighteningLots Of MoneyTaking ResponsibilityBlack Eyes Author:Kate Beckinsale
“White people scare the crap out of me. I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, 'We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!'” PeoplePersonsJobsActorsBlackWhiteNiceHeardSecurityCarThousandTenDenyMovieScareCopCrapLoanSalesmanRippedLemonsDepositsLandlordBlack PersonNice DayCar SalesmanHave A Nice Day Author:Michael Moore
“I barely read. I'm not a good reader at all. Rather than reading, I used to sit in front of the TV and watch black-and-white cowboy movies. I'm a painfully slow reader. It's really bad as an actor, because you have to read a lot of scripts. It takes me like an average of three hours to read a script, which is pretty poor.” UsedThreeReadingActorsBlackHoursWhitePoorWatchesFrontsTvsReaderAverageScriptsTake MeBlack And WhiteCowboyCowboy Movie Author:Will Poulter
“Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.” PeopleWritingCountryInspirationKidsActorsBlackMillionsPoetFlying Author:Russell Simmons
“Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.” PeopleWholeCultureActorsBlackWhiteMorningOfficeFemaleHollywoodCaughtBoxesActressesChecksBlack PeopleConsumptionCaught UpMondayAccumulationFacetsMonday MorningBox Office Author:Danny Glover
“I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."” WantYearsLongSaidActorsBlackFiveSawsTelevisionTvsBabyRedDecidedDressesFive YearsButterflyFabulousGorgeousLiving OnEyelashesLike A ButterflyGorgeous Women Author:Niecy Nash
“When you look at me you don't immediately imagine a very very glamorous icon, so it's only in the theater that I get to do these experiments. I've been an actor about 51 years now. I've played everything from an 8-year-old black boy to a 72-year-old French matriarch, and they hardly hire you to do that on TV.” YearsLooksActorsBlackBoysImagineTvsTheaterExperimentsLook At MeIconsGlamorousBlack BoyMatriarchs Author:Tyne Daly