The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.
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I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.James Earl Jones
I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.
James Earl Jones
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
James Earl Jones
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.
James Earl Jones
So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.
James Earl Jones
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