James Earl Jones

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

“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 s...”

“My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.”

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

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

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

“Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.”

“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.”