James Earl Jones

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know? ↗

— James Earl Jones

#know #mean #peasant #people #simple

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#life #lot #my life #one thing #other

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

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I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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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

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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

#entire #entire family #ever #family #first

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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

— James Earl Jones

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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

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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

#continued #first #got #high #high school