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No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
James Earl Jones
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James Earl Jones
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 17
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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.
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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.
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We children learned responsibility automatically.
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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.
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Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
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You don't build a bond without being present.
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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
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If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.
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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.
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There is a very fine line between love and nausea.
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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.
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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?
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Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.
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Actors never discuss future plans.
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Love is just love, it can never be explained.
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