The best Quotes by James Earl Jones

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

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.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

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This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of Kenobi, and will soon see the end of the rebellion.

Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Obi-Wan: "What have you become?"
Darth Vader: "I am what you made me."

Darth Vader in Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi - Season 1 Episode 3

Luke: "I'll not leave you here. I've got to save you!"
Vader: "You already have, Luke."

Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Be careful not to choke on your aspirations!

Darth Vader in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

No, I am your father!

Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Kallus: "You suspect the rebels are in hiding there?"
Vader: "No. But I want you to burn it. The compassion of the Rebels is a weakness, one we shall exploit."

Darth Vader in Star Wars: Rebels - Season 2 Episode 1

Ezra Bridger: "I don't fear you!"
Darth Vader: "Then you will die - braver than most."

Darth Vader in Star Wars: Rebels - Season 2 Episode 21

Ezra Bridger

Claiming the name of Luke Skywalker also claims his crimes against the Empire. This is the result. Skywalkers die.

Darth Vader in Star Wars Books - Star Wars #5

Luke Skywalker

The Emperor has foreseen a new threat rising against him: the children of the Force. They must not become Jedi.

Darth Vader in Star Wars: Rebels - Spark of Rebellion

You were right about me. Tell your sister you were right.

Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die, follow your heart kid, and you'll never go wrong.

The Sandlot

How long does it take to get from Louisiana to Alabama?
One Mississippi.

Alabama Mississippi Louisiana

One day, I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change - not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Mississippi

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Mississippi - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Mississippi

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

Tove Jansson - Moominsummer Madness

Theatre

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Louis de Funès

Laughing & Smile

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

Emma Watson

Fear

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

Men & Women

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Anthony Hopkins

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

Emilia Clarke

Books Reading

We think too much and feel too little.

Charlie Chaplin

Thinking Feelings & Emotions

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Jackie Chan

Life Desire

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski

Failures & Mistakes

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Bruce Willis

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

Keanu Reeves

The Kardashians

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Al Pacino

Heart Eyes

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

Samuel L. Jackson

Barack Obama 2008

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

Johnny Depp

Heart Feelings & Emotions Seeing

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, "I should be there; I should be helping out."

Paul Walker

Indonesia Helping

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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