James Earl Jones Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  War, Food, Anxiety

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• 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

  Grandmother, Thinking, Taught Us

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• 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.

  James Earl Jones

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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

  James Earl Jones

  Uncles, College, Firsts

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Actors never discuss future plans.

  James Earl Jones

  Actors, Future Planning, Future Plans

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• I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.

  James Earl Jones

  Gratitude, Children, Grandparent

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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

  James Earl Jones

  Father, Real, Boxing

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• 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.

  James Earl Jones

  Senior, Years, Class

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

  James Earl Jones

  Inspirational, Dance, New York

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

  James Earl Jones

  Romantic, Romantic Love, Acting

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

  James Earl Jones

  School, Years, Michigan

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

  James Earl Jones

  Girl, Drama, School

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.

  James Earl Jones

  Views, Land, Knowing

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

  James Earl Jones

  Country, Snow, Fruit

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• 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

  New York, Army, Rights

  "James Earl Jones on Vision". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.

  James Earl Jones

  Up North, White, People

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

  James Earl Jones

  Book, Reading, Sticks

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• We children learned responsibility automatically.

  James Earl Jones

  Children, Responsibility

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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