Words matter. These are the best Jonathan Majors Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m a drifter. I go where the wind blows.
I have nine years of scholastic actor training, and what I’ve learned is that training does not an actor make. You have to have an artful way of looking at things. You have to have a certain point of view. And you get that point of view through experience.
I’m an actor, and the thing about an actor is that if you’re fortunate enough and you have the ability, is you can access multiple parts of yourself. I want to grow and see how far can I stretch.
You have to be as smart as you can be, not smarter. You don’t need to be smarter than you are.
I like going to the matinee. I like taking my daughter there. It’s just my favorite place in the world. I go there after auditions. I lived in New York City, I would go to the theater right after because it clears your mind.
Eight years of steady acting training nonstop… three years in the profession. And I’m still in the apprentice mode and I’m still watching everybody and learning.
In sci-fi, the Black guys always die. So, it’s extremely important to bring African-American characters to the genre and not have them killed.
Sometimes the world didn’t feel fair enough. Everything feels fair on the stage.
Because when you’re in drama school, you’re playing multiple characters at once. You know, in the morning you’re doing a Chekhov play, and then you’re doing a Shakespeare workshop midday.
When someone tries to take over a country or a culture, they destroy the art.
I was told by the world for a long time that I was angry, or that I was sad.
That’s the beauty of being an actor. You’re kind of a journeyman.
In war, the first thing that goes, when you try to take over culture, is the statues. I think we all can recall statues with their heads cut off in museums.
There comes a point in everybody’s life where you either learn to handle things or you get handled.
You know, I didn’t grow up in a cultured household. We were all highly intelligent, but we were common, simple people. We weren’t activists, none of that.
I got a buddy named Brandon, who I boxed with for a long time, and I always think about him, or my daughter. If they look at something I’ve done, or they’ve seen me in the world and they don’t recognize me, then I’ve done something wrong.
If you’ve been in drama school for eight years, you’ve got teachers in your head all the time.
Sadness is a privilege. To be mopey about something, that’s a privilege. I did not grow up with that.
You know, I’m a 6-foot Black man, and I’m built the way I’m built. Driving is a very stress-inducing thing for me to do.
I look for what responsibility the character has in telling the story. If you remove the role from the story, can you still tell the story properly? And if the answer is no, then I’m interested.
I had so much joy as a boy: middle child, lots of energy, big emotional life. I was a clown and still am.
I’m a military brat; my mother’s a pastor. There’s been a lot of order in my life that I don’t have control over, that I just dedicate myself to.
There’s an anecdote that’s really been sticking with me: To be a Black man in America, you are born into the horror genre. You are not safe. Period. Full stop.
I’m not a pastor. I’m not a man of the cloth, but I have my own calling.
And if you think this young boy, from Dallas, Texas, is adding to the canon of theater arts, of performing arts, of cinema, well I’m humbled and I’m very excited.
