You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
James Earl JonesStuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
James Earl JonesIf 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.
James Earl JonesI love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.
James Earl JonesI 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