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I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

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
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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 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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No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
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You don't build a bond without being present.
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I consider myself a novice film actor.
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Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.
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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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Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
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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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Love is just love, it can never be explained.
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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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Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
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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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If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.
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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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We children learned responsibility automatically.
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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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One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
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