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James Cromwell Biography

James Oliver Cromwell (born January 27, 1940) is an American actor. Some of his more notable films include Babe (1995), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), L.A. Confidential (1997), The Green Mile (1999), Space Cowboys (2000), The Sum of All Fears (2002), I, Robot (2004), The Longest Yard (2005), The Queen (2006), Secretariat (2010), The Artist (2011), Big Hero 6 (2014), and Marshall (2017), as well as the television series Angels in America (2003), Six Feet Under (2003–2005), 24 (2007), and Halt and Catch Fire (2015).

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I'm a character actor. Nobody's ever seemed to think of me as a leading man. I'm 6'6''. I've got a big nose. I'm gangly. I've got crooked teeth. That's certainly not Brad Pitt. I'm still around and alive, so if they need older guys, I guess they're thinking of me.

Actor, Character, Men, Pitt, Seemed, Thinking

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

Eat, Fly, Food, Karma, Running, Swim

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

Care, Nurture, Pet, Pets, Responsibility

As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.

Actors, Character, Concerned, Nobody, Watches

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

Human, Keys, Recreating, Self, Supposed, Thinking

For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.

Came, Careers, Difficult, Jobs, Play

Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be?

Gave, Mother, Takes, Thinking, Thinks, Threatening

I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

Fun, Animal, Personality, Worked, Moved, Animals

Every day is perfect because there's no other day! As a friend of mine said, "Ride the horse in the direction it's going. " When you do that, you realize that every moment, every breath, every sound, every encounter is a gift. You bloody well better enjoy it.

Horse, Perfect, Sound, Gift, Ride

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.

Hold, Humans, Principles, Stand, Turns, Violence

It's a wonderful thing as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face when you've gotten old and still sees what you think you look like.

Face, Faces, Gotten, Looks, Old, Thinking

There are reasons to have rules and regulations. That I understand. Authority is a different thing. Authority is to maintain its own position by increasing its power and domination over those people it is supposedly protecting.

Authority, Different, People, Protecting, Reasons, Rules And Regulations

All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

Mother, Father, Inspiration, Wonderful, Humanity, Craft

I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still. ' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day. '

Memorial Day, Play, Son, War, Wife

You don't just one day say, 'That's it, I'm doing this, I'm going to throw all my shoes out and I'm not eating honey and I won't drive my car because there are animal bones in the tires' because you'd drive yourself around the bend.

Animal, Bend, Car, Day, Say, Shoes

Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.

Children, Chooses, Live, Men, Women, World

I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.

Dying, Film, Hits, Hollywood, Internet, Lonely

I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little.

Like, Littles, Look, Looks, Man, Men

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

Assumption, Authority, Knows

Studios are run by those who are way too old or mostly young, who don't think creatively.

Creatively, Mostly, Running, Thinking, Way

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