James Earl Jones Quotes

On this page you can find the TOP of James Earl Jones's best quotes! We hope you will find some sayings from Actor James Earl Jones's in our collection, which will inspire you to new achievements! There are currently 68 quotes on this page collected since January 17, 1931! Share our collection of quotes with your friends on social media so that they can find something to inspire them!
All quotes by James Earl Jones: Acting Army Children College Drama Fathers School more...
  • I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.

  • 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 lose.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I consider myself a novice film actor.

    "A lifetime of achievement, but James Earl Jones isn't done". Interview with Susan Wloszczyna, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 25, 2009.
  • 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.

    "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
  • I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.

    "James Earl Jones: confessions of Big Daddy" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2009.
  • Actors never discuss future plans.

  • 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.

    "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
  • Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

    "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
  • My voice is for hire. My endorsement is not for hire. I will do a voice-over, but I cannot endorse without making a different kind of commitment. My politics are very personal and subjective.

    James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company
  • If 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.

  • Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

    "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
  • My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

  • I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

    James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company
  • I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

    "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
  • 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 Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
  • You don't build a bond without being present.

    "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
  • 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.

    "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
  • 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.

    "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
  • Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack.

  • There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

  • I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.

    "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
  • In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

    "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
  • So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

    "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
  • 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, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company
  • I found my voice in books.

    Voice  
  • 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.

  • Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

    James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company
  • My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

    "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
  • Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

  • No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

    "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
Page 1 of 3
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • We hope you have found the saying you were looking for in our collection! At the moment, we have collected 68 quotes from the Actor James Earl Jones, starting from January 17, 1931! We periodically replenish our collection so that visitors of our website can always find inspirational quotes by authors from all over the world! Come back to us again!
    James Earl Jones quotes about: Acting Army Children College Drama Fathers School