James Earl Jones quotes

James Earl Jones is an American actor renowned for his deep, resonant voice and powerful performances on stage and screen. His work includes iconic roles such as the voice of Darth Vader in "Star Wars" and Mufasa in "The Lion King." He has received numerous awards and is celebrated as one of the most distinguished actors of his generation. Here are 53 of his 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine. View quote
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Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. View quote
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No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement. View quote
James Earl Jones
There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond. View quote
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You don't build a bond without being present. View quote
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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)
In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college. View quote
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So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet. View quote
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Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers. View quote
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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. View quote
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We children learned responsibility automatically. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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James Earl Jones

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Occupation: American Actor
Born: January 17, 1931
Died: September 9, 2024
Quotes count: 53

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