Quotes by James Earl Jones

About James Earl Jones:

James Earl Jones is an American actor who in a career of more than 60 years became known as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile" actors and "one of the greatest actors in American history." Since his Broadway debut in 1957, Jones has won many awards, including a Tony Award and Golden Globe Award for his role in The Great White Hope. Jones has won three Emmy Awards, including two in the same year in 1991, and he also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in the film version of The Great White Hope. He is also known for his voice acting, most notably as Darth Vader in the Star Wars film series and Mufasa in Disney's The Lion King, as well as many other film, stage, and television roles.
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My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

James Earl Jones

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

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

James Earl Jones

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

James Earl Jones

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

James Earl Jones

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

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

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.

James Earl Jones

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

And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.

James Earl Jones

Actors never discuss future plans.

James Earl Jones

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...

James Earl Jones

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

James Earl Jones

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

James Earl Jones

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.

James Earl Jones

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

James Earl Jones

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

I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.

James Earl Jones

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

James Earl Jones

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

James Earl Jones

Author Bio

  • NameJames Earl Jones
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornJanuary 17, 1931
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Television Actor; Film Actor; Voice Actor
  • AwardsNational Medal Of Arts; Daytime Emmy Award