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
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.
Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.
Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.
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.
In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.
More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.
No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
Love is just love, it can never be explained.
People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.
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.
You don't build a bond without being present.
Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.
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.