26 Quotes by James Avery

There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools, in terms of scholarships, in terms of entrepreneurship, in terms of moving us along as a group to that place where we should be as a people.

On one show before a live audience, I had to look out the door and call for Will Smith to come in. The audience couldn't see him, but there he was with his naked butt staring me in the face. I didn't normally hang out with twenty-something practical jokers, so sometimes he was a little much.

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.

When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies.

What you find in the theatre is that if you're good, no matter what color you are, the audience will buy that - whoever you are.

Growth will continue. To what degree, we don't know until it's here.

You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor.

You make a decision about how you want to live your life.