James Earl Jones Quotes

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

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

If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.

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

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.

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

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 lose.

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.

You don't build a bond without being present.

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.

I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.

I found my voice in books.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

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.

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.

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.

You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack.

Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.

Love is just love, it can never be explained.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.