James Earl Jones Quotes

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

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.

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

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

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.

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

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.

The one constant in life is baseball

Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.

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

The inclusiveness of the Drama League luncheon is one of the most exciting things about it. I get to see old friends and meet new friends. Of course I can't tell who anybody is if they're under the age of 75. So my old friends become my new friends.

Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.