If my voice is famous, it's because of, uh, the Darth Vader character in the Star Wars series. When I'm asked that I always have that kind of voice and the answer is no. For many years, James Earl Jones lived in silence because of *** stuttering problem he experienced early in his life. I don't mind talking about my stuttering because is this another example of you, you, you find yourself with *** weak muscle and you exercise it and sometimes that becomes your strong muscle. I was mute from the grade, uh, one through freshman year in high school, mute because I just gave up on talking. I said I can't, I can't cut it. And, uh, if you mute that long, you become very curious about expressing yourself. You become very in need of *** way to express yourself. It was this need to express himself that ultimately led to an acting career. But it wasn't until he had tried his hand at *** number of, of other jobs. I was *** farmer, not *** bad farmer, but that was the way I grew up. I was *** soldier, not *** bad soldier. Uh, I considered the priesthood when I became *** Catholic. Uh, but otherwise there wasn't much I knew how to do. If my voice is famous, it's because of, uh, the Darth Vader character in the Star Wars series. When I'm asked that I always have that kind of voice and the answer is no. For many years, James Earl Jones lived in silence because of *** stuttering problem he experienced early in his life. I don't mind talking about my stuttering because is this another example of you, you, you find yourself with *** weak muscle and you exercise it and sometimes that becomes your strong muscle. I was mute from the grade, uh, one through freshman year in high school, mute because I just gave up on talking. I said I can't, I can't cut it. And, uh, if you mute that long, you become very curious about expressing yourself. You become very in need of *** way to express yourself. It was this need to express himself that ultimately led to an acting career. But it wasn't until he had tried his hand at *** number of, of other jobs. I was *** farmer, not *** bad farmer, but that was the way I grew up. I was *** soldier, not *** bad soldier. Uh, I considered the priesthood when I became *** Catholic. Uh, but otherwise there wasn't much I knew how to do.