James Earl Jones

(27 votes)   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.

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(16 votes)   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.

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(353 votes)   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 loose.

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(263 votes)   There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond

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(59 votes)   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 loose.

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(49 votes)   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.

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(48 votes)   Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

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(48 votes)   There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

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(46 votes)   One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

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(44 votes)   Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

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(35 votes)   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.

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(32 votes)   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.

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(30 votes)   Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

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(27 votes)   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.

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(24 votes)   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.

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