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. – James Cromwell
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. – James Cromwell
I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment… that those were ethical omnivores. – James Cromwell
I was told by my agent that a number of big stars won’t work with anyone two inches taller than them and most of them are under six feet, so you have to be prepared to have trouble. – James Cromwell
The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional. – James Cromwell
My first films were comedy, ‘Murder By Death,’ and ‘The Cheap Detective.’ But now they won’t think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can’t do comedy. – James Cromwell
I auditioned for ‘Revenge Of The Nerds,’ and I so did not want the picture. I didn’t want it. I didn’t want be in anything that had nerds anywhere. – James Cromwell
I don’t know how many parts I’ve lost because a lot of the politics in California are very conservative, and I’m fairly outspoken. I always tried to get as much politics in as I could, because I do believe in class struggle, and I think that’s what’s left out. – James Cromwell
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. – James Cromwell
During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn’t work. They really couldn’t bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it. – James Cromwell
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. – James Cromwell
Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there’s going to be a problem. – James Cromwell
The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren’t really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it’s an incredible show and it’s seen all over the world. – James Cromwell
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.’ – James Cromwell
‘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?’ – James Cromwell
I don’t study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I’m not watching film – I watch the entire film to see how the story goes, but I don’t say, ‘Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,’ because it’s got to be my eye. – James Cromwell
‘Barney Miller’ was a lot of fun. I’m very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most – a lot of people on that cast – I really liked. – James Cromwell
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. – James Cromwell
I’m an animal rights activist because I believe we won’t have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do. – James Cromwell
There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don’t fix it, it won’t continue. – James Cromwell
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. – James Cromwell
I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. – James Cromwell
But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his. – James Cromwell
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life. – James Cromwell
