James Earl Jones Quotes

We Children Learned Responsibility Automatically.

I'd Like To Film A British Commercial; They're Better Than American Ones.

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.

So I Was Determined To Use My Last Two Years In College Doing Something I Thought I Would Enjoy, Which Was Acting. And It Was Probably Because There Was Girls Over In The Drama School Too, You Know?

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.

In The Wintertime, In The Snow Country, Citrus Fruit Was So Rare, And If You Got One, It Was Better Than Ambrosia.

I Got Out Of The Army - In My World - I Came To New York, For Instance, When The Civil Rights Movement Was Just Beginning, And That Created A Certain Energy, A Certain Rumble, A Certain Impetus For Black Actors.

My Youngest Uncle Randy And I Were The First Members Of Our Entire Family To Ever Go To College.

Reading Was A Big Thing, Yes. Books Were A Big Thing. But The Things That Stick Out Were The Newspapers.

So In My Junior Year, I Switched To The Drama Department.

I Love Doing Commercials! Usually, They Have Enough Money That They Can Take Time And Photograph It Well.

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.