James Earl Jones movie quotes

View Quote Look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars....So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you. And so will I.

View Quote Everything the light touches, is our kingdom.

View Quote You have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of Life.

View Quote While others search for what they can take, a true king searches for what he can give.

View Quote [Simba sees his father's spirit in the clouds]
Mufasa: Simba, you must take your place in the Circle of Life.
Simba: I can't.
Mufasa: You must remember who you are. The one true king.
Simba: I'm sorry. I don't know how to be like you.
Mufasa: As king, I was most proud of one thing. Having you as my son.
Simba: That was a long time ago.
Mufasa: No, Simba. That is forever.
Simba: Please, don't leave me again.
Mufasa: I never left you, and never will. Remember who you are. Remember.

View Quote Mufasa: Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures; from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
Simba: But, Dad, don't we eat the antelope?
Mufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we die, our bodies become the grass. And the antelope eat the grass. And so, we are all connected in the great Circle of Life.

View Quote Where is the Eye of the Serpent? Rexor said that you gave it to a girl; probably for a mere night's pleasure. Such a loss. People have no grasp of what they do.

View Quote Infidel defilers. They shall all drown in lakes of blood. Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they will learn why they fear the night.

View Quote [his last words] My child, you have come to me, my son. For who now is your father if it is not me? Who gave you the will to live? I am the well spring, from which you flow. When I am gone, you will have never been. What will your world be without me, my son? My son.

View Quote Alice: We got a Two One Zebra.
Colonel Sam: Jesus! You're kidding.
Alice: Wish the hell I was.

View Quote Gen. Renning: Well, I've done about all I can. You and Harpoon take it from here. Old buddy?
Alice: Yeah, Clay?
Gen. Renning: Happy Hunting!! [Screen aboard "Looking Glass" aircraft goes to snow, indicating that SAC Headquarters has been destroyed.]

View Quote Alice: Turn the bombers. See what happens.
Condor: You don't understand what's going on here, do you? If we stop now, we lose. This president has the determination to wage a nuclear war until an acceptable outcome is achieved.
Alice: Acceptable to whom, Sir?
Condor: Acceptable to me, and the American people. Now you put another bomber on the henhouse, fast. Did you get that?
Alice: I hear you, Sir.
Condor: You put out general orders, to bring down Polar Bear One. Did you hear that?
Alice: Yes, Sir.
Condor: You don't sound convinced, General.
Alice: I don't believe I am, Sir.
[Colonel Fargo whispered to Acting President]: We have a capability to give the orders from here. Condor: Fine, fine. We can send the orders from here.
Alice: I suggest you do that, Sir.
Condor: Am I hearing you correctly?
Alice: I believe you did.
Condor: General, you're fired.

View Quote [having just pressed the torpedo self-destruct; to weapons officer] Now, understand, Commander: The torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. [shows CIA ID] And I... was never here.

View Quote Admiral James Greer: That torpedo didn't self-destruct, you heard it hit the hull and I... was never here.

View Quote Admiral James Greer: I told you to speak your mind Jack, but Jesus!

View Quote SAS could take out any one of these camps in under two minutes. Kill everybody there and be gone before the echo fades. Are you sure this is the same woman? [Jack has a vacant look on his face] Keep at it, then.

View Quote Admiral Greer: Excuse me, Jack, tell me one thing in life that is absolutely for certain.
Jack Ryan: My daughter's love.

View Quote Marty Cantor: [about Sean Miller] They were moving him to Albany Prison in the Isle of Wight while it happened. We think he's left the country.
Admiral Greer: Marty, excuse me. Let's deal in what we know and not what we don't. We know he's escaped. We know it happened in Kent near the Channel. If he's left the country... Jack, listening? The chances he'd come here, that he'd try, that he could come here are so remote, I have trouble even saying it.
Jack Ryan: And yet your first instinct was to come all the way here and tell me.

View Quote I've been called ****, and I can't help that's the way white folks is, but I ain't never been called no scab!