James Earl Jones Quotes
You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before you deeply honored, mighty grateful and just plain gobsmacked.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
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I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.
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There is a lot more hard work to do in the future for the well-being of our sisters and brothers, the people of Thailand.
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I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.
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Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
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The U.K. has been very progressive about on-demand, and the iPlayer has been a great invention. It has trained a generation of viewers to expect on-demand - unfortunately, it trains them to expect free!
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
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The public has an unusual relationship to the poet: It doesn't even know that he is there.
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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I want to prove that actors are good, not just at working in front of the camera.
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I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'
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I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.
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The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
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People have got to realize that we have had a lot of injuries and this is a school of 140 kids. When we have everybody, we're a pretty good football team. But suffering injuries and having people step up are part of the game.
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You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before you deeply honored, mighty grateful and just plain gobsmacked.
