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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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Responsibility
Children
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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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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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You don't build a bond without being present.
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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
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Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
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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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I consider myself a novice film 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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There is a very fine line between love and nausea.
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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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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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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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Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.
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I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.
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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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Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
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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 agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.
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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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