Quote

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.

James Earl Jones

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

James Earl Jones
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 17
Actor
Dub Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Arkabutla
Mississippi
History
View
Without
Views
Time
Told
Land
Middle
Explosive
Knowing
Explosives
Happened
Historical
Point
Theater

More quotes by James Earl Jones

Image
Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
James Earl Jones
Image
I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.
James Earl Jones
Image
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?
James Earl Jones
Image
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.
James Earl Jones
Image
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.
James Earl Jones
Image
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.
James Earl Jones
Image
We children learned responsibility automatically.
James Earl Jones
Image
You don't build a bond without being present.
James Earl Jones
Image
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
James Earl Jones
Image
I consider myself a novice film actor.
James Earl Jones
Image
I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.
James Earl Jones
Image
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.
James Earl Jones
Image
There is a very fine line between love and nausea.
James Earl Jones
Image
Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
James Earl Jones
Image
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
James Earl Jones
Image
If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.
James Earl Jones
Image
The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.
James Earl Jones
Image
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
James Earl Jones
Image
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
James Earl Jones
Image
Actors never discuss future plans.
James Earl Jones