Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know. ~James Earl Jones
War World Anxiety
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really. ~James Earl Jones
Romantic Want Realist
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors. ~James Earl Jones
Beginning World Black
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing. ~James Earl Jones
Business Father World
I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know? ~James Earl Jones
Simple People You
I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone who accepts being in this noble profession is automatically self-critical. ~James Earl Jones
You Think Curious
I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness. ~James Earl Jones
Funny Earth People
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
Better Fruit You
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children. ~James Earl Jones
Family Mothers Children
More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather. ~James Earl Jones
Me Go Single
My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know. ~James Earl Jones
Grandmother Racism You
My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college. ~James Earl Jones
Family College Go
One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas. ~James Earl Jones
Day College Go
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. ~James Earl Jones
Life Heart Words
People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually. ~James Earl Jones
People She Her
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
Thought Class Should
Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it. ~James Earl Jones
Important Speech Human
Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter. ~James Earl Jones
Children School Laughter
The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was. ~James Earl Jones
Goal Find Millionaire
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose. ~James Earl Jones
World Violence People