Quotes by James Earl Jones

“When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.”

“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.”

“There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.”

“Today will be a day long remembered. It has seen the death of Kenobi, and will soon see the end of the Rebellion.”

“And now, your highness, we will discuss the location of your hidden rebel base...”

“Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.”

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

“A dog and a beer.”

“[Quotable:] The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. Its been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come. ... Field of Dreams”

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”

“If life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, lets all get wasted and have the time of our lives.”

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

I think stutterers are funny. And I know its rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why theyre 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.

I dont ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. Im not a romantic really.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.