109 Quotes by James Earl Jones

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.

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.

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

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

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.

Once you begin to explain or excuse...

The one constant in life is baseball

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.