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James Earl Jones

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

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

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"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."

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"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."

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"Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on my acting."

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"There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond."
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"I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know."
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"So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?"
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"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."
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"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."
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"The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet."
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"I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?"
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"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."
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"My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college."
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"You don't build a bond without being present."
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