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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
Arkabutla
Mississippi
Words
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Heart
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Love
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Life
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Hardest
Silence

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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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I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.
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You don't build a bond without being present.
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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 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 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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I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.
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A man's got to take care of his family. You live in my house, you sleep your behind on my bedclothes, you put my food in your belly because you are my son you are my flesh and blood, not because I like you. It is my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you.
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No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
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I consider myself a novice film actor.
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Love is just love, it can never be explained.
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We children learned responsibility automatically.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
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Actors never discuss future plans.
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