James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jonesis an American actor. His career has spanned more than 60 years, and he has been described as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile" actors and "one of the greatest actors in American history." Since his Broadway debut in 1957, Jones has won many awards, including a Tony Award and Golden Globe Award for his role in The Great White Hope. Jones has won three Emmy Awards, including two in the same year in 1991, and he...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 January 1931
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.
The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.
Love is just love, it can never be explained.
I consider myself a novice film actor.
Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.
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.
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.
Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.
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.