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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
— Nancy McKeon
Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.
— James Earl Jones
Oh, people will come, Ray," Phillip intones, doing his best James Earl Jones. "People will most definitely come.
— Jonathan Tropper
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
No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
— James Earl Jones
More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
— 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
Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people.
— Philip Selway
In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.
— James Earl Jones
The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.
— James Earl Jones
There's nothing I would retire for, so I won't retire.
— James Earl Jones
In our resolve to build a better world ... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.
— James Earl Jones
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
— James Earl Jones
Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.
— James Earl Jones
Love is just love, it can never be explained.
— James Earl Jones
We children learned responsibility automatically.
— James Earl Jones
Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.
— James Earl Jones
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
— 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
Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.
— James Earl Jones
So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.
— James Earl Jones
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.
— James Earl Jones
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.
— James Earl Jones
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
— James Earl Jones
I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.
— James Earl Jones
My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.
— James Earl Jones
I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.
— 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
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
— James Earl Jones
Actors never discuss future plans.
— James Earl Jones
The opportunity to carry water every night to James Earl Jones on stage is a dream come true.
— John Larroquette
Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
— James Earl Jones
I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.
— James Earl Jones
If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.
— James Earl Jones
Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.
— James Earl Jones
You don't build a bond without being present.
— James Earl Jones
I found my voice in books ...
— James Earl Jones
There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.
— James Earl Jones
We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.
— 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
