Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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

Guns

Win

Will

" You don't build a bond without being present. "

" 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. "

" Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter. "

James Earl Jones

Children

Laughter

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. "

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

James Earl Jones

Grandfather

" 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. "

" Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it. "

" People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really. "

" Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. "

" When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound. "

" There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond. "

" Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine. "

" 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

She

My Life

" 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. "

" 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. "