Quotes by James Earl Jones - Page 2

I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Running
Actors
Night
Profession
Accidentally
Love Work Movies
Channels
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The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Goal
Hollywood
Stars
Star
Hollywood Star
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You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before you deeply honored, mighty grateful and just plain gobsmacked.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Grateful
Honored
Deeply
Mighty
Plain
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The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Gun
Law
Winning
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The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Citizens
Criminals
Decent
Filled
Should
Violence
World
World People Will
Because
World People Win
Also
Carry
Guns
Decent People
People Win Will
Law-Abiding
Law-Abiding Citizens
Loose
Otherwise
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Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'
James Earl Jones / Actor
Journey
Careers
Cruise
Denzel
Okay
Across
Washington
Denzel Washington
Robert
Robert Redford
Tom
Tom Cruise
Wherever
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So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Michigan
Mute
School
Years
By The Time
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And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Women Society Me
Embittered
Ethnic
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When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Great
Ability
Black History
Drama
Great Literature
Greater
Human Mind
Language
Literature
Mind
Sermons
Share
Writing
Feel
Anything
Achieved
Great Mind Literature
Through
Read
Human
Thoughts
Speeches
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My voice is for hire. My endorsement is not for hire. I will do a voice-over, but I cannot endorse without making a different kind of commitment. My politics are very personal and subjective.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Commitment
Different
Voice
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My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Dramatic
Grandmother
One Direction
Sanity
Life Me My Life
Direction
Effect
Human Being
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So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?
James Earl Jones / Actor
Girl
Determined
Drama
School
Drama School
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I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone who accepts being in this noble profession is automatically self-critical.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Curious
Noble
Profession
Accepts
Automatically
Self-Critical
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Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Food
War
Anxiety
Cows
Potatoes
World War Ii
War World Know
Hogs
Rationing
Starve
World War
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When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Dance
Inspirational
New York
Acting
Army
Fencing
Involved
Theater
Studied
Classes
Wing
York
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You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Church
Disturbing
Ideas
Singing
Supper
Sang
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I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Jobs
Littles
Preparing
Should
Theater
Considered
Something Else
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And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Arthur
Well Written
Life Thinking Your
Miller
Shakespeare
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My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Grandmother
Michigan
Neurotic
Psychotic
Racism
Taught
Taught Us
Thinking
Had
Face
Own
Began
Got
Her
Later
Prepare
She
Though
Undo
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I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Knowing
Land
Point Of View
Theater
Views
Explosive
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I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.
James Earl Jones / Actor
New York
Army
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Impetus
Instance
Rights
Civil
Rights Movement
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If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Crush
Encounters
Littles
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One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Uncles
Aircraft
Brilliant
College
Kansas
One Day
Porch
Randy
Retired
Sitting
Ended
Uncle
Youngest
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So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Anatomy
Class
If I Could
Senior
Sophomore
Sophomore Year
Years
Interested
Hack
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It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don’t acknowledge that family is important and it has to be people who are present, you know and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Inspiring
Children
Father
Mothers Day
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The inclusiveness of the Drama League luncheon is one of the most exciting things about it. I get to see old friends and meet new friends. Of course I can't tell who anybody is if they're under the age of 75. So my old friends become my new friends.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Drama
League
Old Friends
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It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Acknowledge
Be Real
Fathers
Present
Mothers
Problems
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Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Church
Grandpa
Middle
People
Up North
Welcome
White
European
Indians
Mostly
Neighboring
North
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A man's got to take care of his family. You live in my house, you sleep your behind on my bedclothes, you put my food in your belly because you are my son; you are my flesh and blood, not because I like you. It is my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you.
James Earl Jones / Actor
I Like You
Responsibility
Sleep
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I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Laughing
Nervous
Okay
People
Thinking
Funny Start People
Incorrect
Politically Incorrect
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The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Motivational
Army
Baseball
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Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack.
James Earl Jones / Actor
Money
Children
Thinking
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