James Earl Jones quotes

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. (James Earl Jones)
More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
James Earl Jones
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
Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
James Earl Jones
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
Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.
James Earl Jones
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
James Earl Jones
No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
James Earl Jones
There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
James Earl Jones
You don't build a bond without being present.
James Earl Jones
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)
In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.
James Earl Jones
You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
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
My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.
James Earl Jones
So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.
James Earl Jones
I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.
James Earl Jones
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
The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.
James Earl Jones
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
James Earl Jones
I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know? (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
We children learned responsibility automatically.
James Earl Jones
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
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