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James Earl Jones Quotes

James Earl Jones quotes

American Actor January 17, 1931

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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
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
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
James Earl Jones quote: "Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you..."
Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine. James Earl Jones
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
I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know. James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones quote: "The arts have always been an important ingredient to the..."
The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet. James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones quote: "Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy,..."
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy. James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones quote: "Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the..."
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers. James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones quote: "We children learned responsibility automatically."
We children learned responsibility automatically. James Earl Jones
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
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
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
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
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

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