#to

And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#blame #could #end #everything #good

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

#built #church #community #european #got

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

— James Earl Jones

#been #boxing #business #father #had

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

#being #called #class #continue #could

We children learned responsibility automatically. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#children #learned #responsibility

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

#after #american #army #classes #dance

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12. ↗

— January Jones

#dad #grades #gym #health #i

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#changes #character #every #gets #just

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#actually #away #creating #enriched #feeling

My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#benefit #characters #draw #function #functioning