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When I read great literature,...

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

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It has to be real, and I thin...

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

So by the time I got to Michi...

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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Stuttering is painful. In Sun...

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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And it was the idea that you ...

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.

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You cannot be an actor like I...

You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before you deeply honored, mighty grateful and just plain gobsmacked.

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

Once you begin to explain or ...

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 love to see actors' work. I...

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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You sang in church, you know,...

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

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I happened to happened to lan...

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 think stutterers are funny....

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.

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When you are mute, you become...

When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

There's nothing I would retir...

There's nothing I would retire for, so I won't retire.

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

Acting is not about anything ...

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

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I consider myself a novice fi...

I consider myself a novice film actor.

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I think the extent to which I...

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.

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

I was preparing myself for th...

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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There is not enough magic in ...

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

The world is filled with viol...

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

And nothing embittered me, wh...

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

James Earl Jones 80 quotes

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