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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
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You don't build a bond without being present.
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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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No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
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We children learned responsibility automatically.
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Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
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The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.
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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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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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If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.
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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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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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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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There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
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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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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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Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
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Love is just love, it can never be explained.
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Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.
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I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.
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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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