James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

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

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

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.

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

You don't build a bond without being present.

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

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.

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

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.

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

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.

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

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

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

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

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

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.

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

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
James Earl Jones

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.

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'