James Earl Jones Quotes

• The hardest thing to put into words is what you feel in your heart.

  James Earl Jones

  Topics in Life

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Measles, Debases, Change, Feelings

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Disturbing, Supper, Church

• You don’t build a bond without being present.

  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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fencing, Speech

• We children learned responsibility automatically.

  James Earl Jones

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Automatically, Responsibility

• 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

  Tags in Millionaire, Hollywood Star

• The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven’t gotten there yet.

  James Earl Jones

  Tags in Yet, Ingredient

• 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

  Tags in Anatomy, Hack, Sophomore

• So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

  James Earl Jones

  Tags in Junior, Switched

• 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

  Topics in College

  Tags in Determined, School

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Michigan, Stuttering, High School, Mute

• Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

  James Earl Jones

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Newspapers, Stick, Reading

• 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

  Topics in College

  Tags in Uncle, Randy, Aircraft, Porch, Brilliant

• No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

  James Earl Jones

  Tags in Owed, Insolvency, Entitlement

• My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

  James Earl Jones

  Topics in College

  Tags in Entire, Uncle, Randy, Youngest

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Grandmother, Psychotic, Neurotics, Face

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Effect, Direction, Sanity

• More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

  James Earl Jones

  Tags in Inspired, Grandfather

• 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

  Topics in Mother

James Earl Jones (58)

Birth:	17th January, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

James Earl Jones was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA. He is an American actor. His role in several films include: Dr. Strangelove, The Comedians, The Great White Hope(won- Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year- Actor, nominated- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor- Motion Picture Drama, nominated- Academy Award for Best Actor), The Man, Claudine, The Greatest, A Piece of the Action, My Little Girl, Matewan, Best of the Best, Grim Prairie Tales, Clean Slate, Undercover Angel, and Gimme Shelter. His role in television include: The Cay(TV film), Guyana Tragedy(TV miniseries), The Vegas Strip War(TV film), Heat Wave(TV film, won- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie), What the Deaf Man Heard(TV film), The Second Civil War(TV film), Summer's End(TV movie, won- Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special), and The Reading Room(TV film). In 2011, he received an Honorary Academy Award.

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