Morgan Freeman Quotes

[T]here's nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

Usually when you're Asian and you're on set, you're the only Asian there. Either you're the token Asian or you're the Asian sidekick.

When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.

I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

Part of the history of black people in the western hemisphere, in some ways, has been fleeing from this notion that they were black. So I can represent an ideal, and with that, you can demonstrate that there is nothing to be afraid of, nothing to run from, and that, in fact, a good deal of beauty that resides there.

By the time I reached middle school, I fully identified myself not even as biracial but just as black.

I've been on predominantly 'white' shows before, and I had also been on predominantly 'black' shows. I would complain that when I was on a white show, they would only hire me because there was a black character or they needed a black voice. But then I would be mad if they went and hired a white dude in my position.

Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.

I definitely am not white.

I think Asian men are beautiful.

I don't often get Indian girl roles because I'm 'not Indian enough.' Which is true - I'm from Texas.

When you're the only woman of color, and you walk into a room of people who don't look like you, most of them with blond hair and blue eyes, it's disheartening. The weirdest part is that I walk in and assume they think I'm auditioning to play a different role than them, but I'm going out for their same role.

I didn't want to write a 'black' book because black characters are a tough sell.

I consciously learned and performed my race like a teacher's pet in an advanced placement course on black masculinity.

Don't fault me for wearing a 20-inch blond wig - it doesn't mean I want to be a white person.

I don't identify as white. I have a complex relationship with whiteness.

Asian Americans haven't had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Hollywood, just because there hasn't been that much of an interest, especially in Asian American males.

I do admit that black men love me. I always forget that, and then I come to a black neighborhood and I remember.

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to move story along or as a way to make things more entertaining.

When you're a black superhero, you can't erase the notion that you're black. If you're black, living in the community, and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's true of anybody. I mean, you could use celebrity as a similar metaphor.

Until recently, Hollywood offered only a handful of roles to actors of color. The majority of my opportunities have fallen into two categories: Scary Black and Funny Black.

There's always a wild card or two when you're casting. I'm usually the wild card. In a room of Caucasian guys, a director might be like, 'OK, let's see, like, two guys who aren't. And maybe they'll be the wild card choice.'

It's very hard, you know, for an Asian actor to be in a prime-time television series.