James Avery Quotes

#1. Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

James Avery

#2. Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

Ryan Phillippe

#3. Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

James Avery

#4. Your anger and emotional outbursts usually result when someone penetrates to the core of what you do not like about yourself or still cannot accept.

Bill George Peter Sims

#5. There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language that is somehow not as clear in a lot of American schools.

James Avery

#6. I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.

James Avery

#7. I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

James Avery

#8. On one show before a live audience, I had to look out the door and call for Will Smith to come in. The audience couldn't see him, but there he was with his naked butt staring me in the face. I didn't normally hang out with twenty-something practical jokers, so sometimes he was a little much.

James Avery

#9. You are only an actor if you absolutely love it and can not do anything else. Starving for your art is great in your 20s, but it's not so great at 35. It has to be absolute love. You can't worry about being a movie star or anything else. Just love. That's it.

James Avery

#10. I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.

James Avery

#11. I like me food. I also don't like me exercising. It's something me don't do very well. But it's something I've got to get into.

Robbie Williams

#12. They understood that the innate emotions of humans were mutable. Anger didn't have to lead to violence, hate to cruelty, fear to oppression. There was a space for change between what words were said and what deeds were done.

Ronlyn Domingue

#13. What you find in the theatre is that if you're good, no matter what color you are, the audience will buy that - whoever you are.

James Avery

#14. Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.

James Avery

#15. Loving someone isn't about fairy tales or control. None of us walk through the world unwounded. Love is simply giving someone a safe space to grow and heal, and that's how we have to love ourselves as well.

James Avery Fuchs

#16. There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools, in terms of scholarships, in terms of entrepreneurship, in terms of moving us along as a group to that place where we should be as a people.

James Avery

#17. You never let go of your dreams. They're meant to be pursued. And even though it might be hard reaching them, they'll pay off in the end.

Atle Jarnaes Leroy

#18. You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor.

James Avery

#19. I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.

Zooey Deschanel

#20. Power belongs in the hands of love, not memories.

James Avery Fuchs

#21. It was true, Ben at age two was an astonishing thing. He'd demand love outright, grab at a breast or an arm, but as soon as he had enough affection, and that came quickly, he'd go completely limp, play dead until you let him go.

Gillian Flynn

#22. When you graduate and come out with a degree in drama, that doesn't mean you're skilled and you're a professional.

James Avery

#23. The name of the show was 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' not 'Philip and Viv of Bel-Air.' If you didn't want to walk away from the best job in the world over a petty issue, you accepted the way it was.

James Avery

#24. I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.

James Avery