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James Earl Jones Quotes

American - Actor | January 17, 1931 -

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.

James Earl Jones

Life Me Direction My Life Back Go

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

James Earl Jones

Family Children People Society Think

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.

James Earl Jones

Time Myself Job Little Here Going

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

I Am You Know Hollywood Try Content

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

James Earl Jones

Simple People You Know Mean Peasant

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

James Earl Jones

Father Business World Boxing Actor

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.

James Earl Jones

History Time View Point Of View Land

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.

James Earl Jones

Beginning New York World Energy Army

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

James Earl Jones

Romantic Want Realist Ever Really

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.

James Earl Jones

Community Welcome People Church You

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

James Earl Jones

Women People Me Society Action End

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.

James Earl Jones

Life Saying Thinking You Play Say

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