What you find in the theatre is that if you're good, no matter what color you are, the audience will buy that… — James Avery Copy Share Image
You are only an actor if you absolutely love it and can not do anything else. Starving for your art is great… — James Avery Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — James Avery Copy Share Image
On one show before a live audience, I had to look out the door and call for Will Smith to come in. The audience… — James Avery Copy Share Image
Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel… — James Avery Copy Share Image
See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they see movies and television, and they figure… — James Avery Copy Share Image
Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular. — James Avery Copy Share Image
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.… — James Avery Copy Share Image
I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that… — James Avery Copy Share Image
You couldn't get mad. You always had to remain calm no matter what, because they wanted you to get mad. And you had to… — James Avery Copy Share Image
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… — James Avery Copy Share Image
