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

James Earl Jones

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James Earl Jones
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 17
Actor
Dub Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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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.
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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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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.
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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
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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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Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.
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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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I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.
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I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
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Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.
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I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.
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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 love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.
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Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.
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I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.
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The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.
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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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We children learned responsibility automatically.
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Actors never discuss future plans.
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Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
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