(1995 quote) It was never my dream to be famous. I didn’t start acting to be a movie star. I started in the theater and my desire was to get better at my craft. It’s still my desire. I don’t consider myself a movie star, nor do I really have the desire to be one. I’m just an entertainer. An actor who works hard at his craft. Whatever labels people give me, that’s not really me or part of my process. Come and talk with me again on my 50th birthday and I may feel differently, but right now, I’m just taking the lesson from one of my old teachers who said, “Don’t be afraid to fail big.”.
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Happy Birthday: John Amos
There are three stages in an actor’s career: Who is John Amos? Get me John Amos. Get me a young John Amos.
I love my work and am grateful to God to have a profession that brings joy to so many.
They killed my character off and, as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again I got cast in a little program called Roots (1977) and, as they would say, the rest is history.
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