Top 30 Jonathan Majors Quotes

I came from a very military, Christian, Southern upbringing.

I dreamed about being Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan being my dad at some points, or him helping me play basketball.

I’m not a pastor. I’m not a man of the cloth, but I have my own calling.

You speak to be understood, right? And you’re understood so you can be felt. And you’re felt so you can get what you want.

When someone tries to take over a country or a culture, they destroy the art.

You have to be as smart as you can be, not smarter. You don’t need to be smarter than you are.

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.

That’s the beauty of being an actor. You’re kind of a journeyman.

I try to do my best to differentiate each fella, each spirit, from the next one… and once it’s exorcised it doesn’t just go away. It becomes a part of you. So every role becomes a part of you.

In cinema, the hero is not the one who sacrifices their body always, but the person who sacrifices their heart. They allow their heart to break so everyone else can stay intact.

As a father, my job is to protect, and keep things away from interfering with her imagination because that’s her voice.

There comes a point in everybody’s life where you either learn to handle things or you get handled.

Growth is uncomfortable; you have to embrace the discomfort if you want to expand.

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’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.

The thing about terror and why it’s so interesting is that terror is there to keep us safe. But then the issue comes in: Well, how do you ever grow if you can’t get past this fear? That’s called suppression.

Sadness is a privilege. To be mopey about something, that’s a privilege. I did not grow up with that.

So the survival of the spirit, the body and the emotions? That’s the way to win in ‘Lovecraft Country’.

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.

As an actor, you need to grow and experience things. What you experience in life is what is going to help you and your art.

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.

I use the transition of the airport, the flying from one place to another to really let go of the -isms, and the ideas that I have as an individual and kind of adapt and begin to morph.

We talk about America as a melting pot, where you can’t turn salt into pepper. Then you got too much pepper. You need the salt. You need the paprika. You need the broth.

Sometimes the world didn’t feel fair enough. Everything feels fair on the stage.

Emotions in the men in my family run deep.

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

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.

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.

You keep your rent low, which takes some of the pressure off. So when I say ‘no,’ I mean ‘no.’ I don’t mean, ‘Give me more money.’ I mean ‘no.’