James Earl Jones

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

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.

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

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

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.