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That's one of the problems with Hollywood. It'll say 'policeman,' and an unless it says 'black policeman,' a lot of times you won't even get the opportunity to read for it, which is kind of crazy, but that's the way it is.

— Meshach Taylor

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When you're black in Hollywood, you know, your first role is going to be on a crime drama. That's - everybody knows that.

— Terry Crews

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.

— Katherine Heigl

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

— Christian Slater

When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

That's a good sign for a movie: When it becomes part of the lexicon and pop culture for an entire generation. I've been in many movies, luckily, that get quoted.

— Rob Riggle

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

— Paul Mooney

What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.

— Matt Bomer

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.'

— Stephen Carter

✗Opposing Perspectives

You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.

— Tom Shales