Samuel L Jackson Quotes

I've been training with my mixed martial arts guy as much as I can when I'm back in L.A., so if I could do another movie like I did in 'The Killing Game,' with Samuel L. Jackson, that would be awesome. ~ Kellan Lutz

The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated the turn of the year from the death of winter to the life of spring - the winter solstice. As this was an auspicious change the festival was a very joyous one ... The giving of presents and the burning of candles characterized it. Among the Northern people the lighting of a huge log in the houses of the great and with appropriate ceremonies was a feature. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

The [Oregon] Journal in its head and heart will stand for the people, be truly Democratic and free from political entanglements and machinations, believing in the principles that promise the greatest good to the greatest number-to ALL MEN, regardless of race, creed or previous condition of servitude ... It will be a fair newspaper, not a dull and selfish sheet ... ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is. ~ Joel Siegel

The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I keep saying that, if Samuel L. Jackson and Bette Davis could have a baby, it would be Taraji P. Henson. To me, she's one of the greatest character actors of our generation, let alone leading ladies. She's just phenomenal in everything she does. ~ Jussie Smollett

If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

MY ASS MIGHT BE DUMB, BUT I'M NOT A DUMB ASS. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Girl, don't make me put my foot in your ass. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that! ~ Ice Cube

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.' ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I understand the rural South, because I spent a lot of time in it when I was a kid. My grandfather's brothers were farmers. I spent time on the farm as a kid with them, walking through the fields, working, and hanging out. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I run into a lot of kids who are either on R&R, or on their way to Iraq. They all know who I am and are fans, but they're kids! I am yet to meet one that's over 23. Yet they're full-time warriors. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

My ass may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I'm actually very ordinary, except people get to pay their money to come watch me work. The same way that we go to McDonald's.. we don't care about the guy behind the counter, but if he was doing something special, we'd pay our money to go watch him cook that hamburger. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

He's going to the hair doctor. The man's going bald." You hadn't noticed that whole underdeveloped region right up in here?"
Oh, you're one to talk, Slick."
Nah. See, when a black man goes bald, he still looks good. Look at Michael Jordan, George Foreman, Samuel L. Jackson, Classy-lookin' brothers, Who you got? Kojak? ~ Alex Kendrick

I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Jackson doesn't bother to read the scripts anymore. He just checks to make sure he has one loud scene where he gets to shout, then cashes the paycheck. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I always knew I wanted to be an actress, and I had the attitude that I would learn more under people like Samuel L. Jackson, Laurence Fishburne or Mike Myers than from someone who had never starred in a movie. I just didn't think that someone who had never been in a movie could teach me how to act in one. ~ Meagan Good

Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it ~ Samuel L. Jackson

It was actually a lot more helpful to have Calvin Hart, a cop, as my template. He was also my technical advisor on Shaft. This time, I kinda got to go to Jersey City with him, and hang around, and watch him interact with other cops, people in the projects, and see what it means to be him. People call him 'Big Daddy' and he's this larger-than-life hero to a lot of people. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game. ~ Joel Kinnaman

I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen. ~ Trevor Rabin

I read, watch television, watch movies, hang out with family. I like my clothes and I have great cars, and I drive those. But for most people, it's like, "That's boring. You don't club? You don't party?" ~ Samuel L. Jackson

The first joke I got on the air I remember clearly. Dennis McNicholas and Robert Carlock wrote a sketch where they were evacuating the Titanic, and the last two guys on the entire ship were the two black guys, Samuel L. Jackson and Tracy Morgan. So Will Ferrell was running back and forth, saying, "All first-class passengers get in the lifeboat. All second-class passengers and third-class passengers get in the lifeboat. Let's get all the animals in the lifeboat. Let's put all the empty luggage in the lifeboat." ~ Michael Schur

When I'm not working, I like to play golf. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.' ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking. ~ Andy Serkis

I've made a way to allow myself to do big films, small films, dramas, comedies, action films, horror films, or whatever interests me, as a movie-goer. I like watching myself in movies. I want to choose movies that allow me to enjoy myself, the way that I want to entertain myself. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I'm pretty focused on what I do. I think directing is a very specific talent, and I'm not real big on putting puzzles together, which is basically what a film is. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Jules Winnfield: "ENGLISH, MOTHER FUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT!?"

Samuel L. Jackson ~ Quentin Tarantino

I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

The line from Pulp Fiction - the one Samuel L. Jackson shouts at John Travolta as they're trying to wash blood off their hands - pops into my head: 'I used the same soap you did and when I dried my hands, the towel didn't look like no fuckin' maxi-pad!' I almost - almost - share this most quotable of cinematic quotes with him, when I remember it contains The Word. You know: 'maxi-pad. ~ Elle Lothlorien

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

When the riots happened in L.A., they didn't go to Beverly Hills to trash Rodeo Drive. They trashed their own neighborhoods. It's one of those tragedies that we always see in riot situations, where the only thing that they can lash out against is the stuff that's right there in their own communities. They destroy the very things that help them survive in their own community. There is a level of futility in that. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I think the biggest challenges for franchises are keeping them fresh and exciting, and most times, you need a good bad guy to make that thing continually work, and sometimes they don't. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived through it. I lived in it. I was of it. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

There are some movies that deserve criticism. They want people to know that it's a great dramatic accomplishment and has some great performances in it. But, c'mon. Yes, you will have some fun if you go see 'Snakes on a Plane.' Snakes are biting people - and they're biting them right on screen. There's nothing to review. It's not 'Snakes on the Waterfront.' You don't have snakes going, 'I coulda been a constrictor.' No. Hell no. It's 'Snakes on a Plane.' ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you." I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before you popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin': it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. .45 here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin, Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd.

he became the shepherd instead of the vengeance.

Jules Winnfield- Samuel L. Jackson ~ Quentin Tarantino

I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.' ~ Samuel L. Jackson

I have a lot more energy than I used to have. I sleep better. I like the way I look in my clothes better. I don't cramp as much. I exercise better. I think my circulation has gotten better. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Never stop believing in magic. ~ A.L. Jackson

You changed everything the day you walked into my life. You are my heart's second chance. ~ A.L. Jackson

Success affects the number of friends you have infinitely more than how the number of friends you have affects your success. ~ Tiffany L. Jackson

I am still so in love with you, Samantha. Completely, crazy in love with you."
... "I love you with every part of me, Christopher. Never stopped. ~ A.L. Jackson

Could either of us ever forget the connection we'd shaped, one carved out in those perfect hours spent alone in my room?
No. Not me. ~ A.L. Jackson

It always seemed the thicker the insults were, the closer we got. ~ A.L. Jackson

I'd lost myself somewhere along the way, and maybe my subconscious was telling me it was time I found that person again, because I sure as hell wasn't happy with who I'd become. ~ A.L. Jackson

That's the thing, Alexis. I see you looking at me the way you do. Like we could be somethin'. And I want it so fucking bad. To be something to you. To be good for you. But I ruined that possibility a long time ago and I'm not sure there are enough pieces left to give any of them to you. That's my truth. ~ A.L. Jackson

I lose my head when I'm with you."
… "And I find myself when I'm with you. ~ A.L. Jackson

I've always fucking needed you."
She jarred, shocked by my sudden movement, and blinked up at me with those eyes that twisted me in two.
I loosened my hold, and my words quieted. "But just because I need you doesn't mean I get to keep you. ~ A.L. Jackson

Do you know what it feels like right before lightning strikes? How you can feel the current running through your veins? The trembles of warning that ripple through the dense air? The crackling energy that bristles across your skin and shakes you to your bones? It's as if nitrogen and oxygen have come alive. As if every element in the air is combustible. Explosive. ~ A.L. Jackson

Fear in and of itself is never a valid reason not to do something. ~ Tiffany L. Jackson

I'm going to walk away and I'm going to forget about you, Aly. And you're going to do the same. ~ A.L. Jackson

What do you want, Christian?"
What did I want? To make her smile, to wipe away her tears, to hold her. To be a father, a real father, not one in title, but on who'd earned that right. I wanted to stay.
"I want my family," I forced through the lump in my throat. ~ A.L. Jackson

Sometimes it gets old, living in the shadows. Somehow they're not quite so dark when you're around. ~ A.L. Jackson

I'll never let you go again,Melanie.Never.Nothing will come between us ... nothing.
I would destroy anything,and anyone who tried to take her from me.
Being away from her was no longer an option.
She was mine.Only mine. ~ A.L. Jackson

That's how I spent the next day and night - dividing my time between my girls. I felt like the go between until the three of us could be together. It was as if I were carrying a piece of one to the other, making them whole, as if we were part of the same soul. ~ A.L. Jackson

Daddy.
I was struck with the magnitude of what that meant, the responsibility of being a father. Waves of devotion swept through me as I silently promised her I would always be there for her, would always love her, would be the best father I could possibly be. ~ A.L. Jackson

Tell me you want me, too..Tell me you lie in bed at night and when you close your eyes, you see me. Because all I can see is you. ~ A.L. Jackson

He stood above me, his body visibly trembling.
"This is forever. ~ A.L. Jackson

Never in my life had I felt as exposed as I did right then. Her fingertips softened as they traced along the outline of my sins, as she caressed the markings of every mistake I'd ever made as if this girl somehow found some kind of beauty in them. ~ A.L. Jackson

If you detect something mindless about American education, it's because the mind has been taken out of it. Only visible behavior counts. ~ Samuel L. Blumenfeld

[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch ... ~ Shirley Jackson

You grew up on me, Aly, he murmured, the words rough, almost in awe. ~ A.L. Jackson

I couldn't help the way he made me feel. Couldn't help that his arms were my favorite place. Couldn't help that his mouth was my favorite flavor and his voice was my favorite song. ~ A.L. Jackson

That's what dreams are for. There's always a million of them out there floating around us, just out of reach, waiting for us to catch them. A million more ready to take their place when we find the others. ~ A.L. Jackson

I guess when you loved someone, you were willing to accept all the pieces and factors and fragments that made them up, the sum of those adding up to the whole, and you were left with no choice but to wholly accept the total of that creation. ~ A.L. Jackson

Don't ever confuse broken for weak. ~ A.L. Jackson

When you think about the success you desire, don't forget that God's "not yet" doesn't mean "not ever. ~ Tiffany L. Jackson

I didn't want to pretend anymore. Didn't want to keep pretending she was dead when she'd been the only person who'd ever made me feel alive. Didn't want to keep pretending she meant nothing when she meant everything. ~ A.L. Jackson

Baby, I wish I could tell you how much I love you, how much you mean to me."
He nuzzled my cheek and continued down my neck, setting a fire across my skin, churning coals that burst into flames deep within my soul.
"Show me. ~ A.L. Jackson

You're going to forget about me and find happiness. You're going to find someone who can love you exactly the way you deserve to be loved." I lowered myself so I could directly meet her face. "Do you hear me? ~ A.L. Jackson

Loving someone was like volunteering for heartache and sorrow and a lifetime of bullshit. But I wanted one. I wanted her. Tamar King. We had a love/ hate relationship. I loved messing with her and she loved to hate me for it. ~ A.L. Jackson

I turned to him, wishing for nothing more than to tell him who I was.
That I was supposed to be Melanie's husband, not him.
That I adored her more than any other creature that had ever lived and always would.
That I had every intention of taking her away from him. ~ A.L. Jackson

You make me feel again, Rynna. You make me feel like every chance is one worth taking. Like you're leading me out of the darkness that's ruled my life. When I close my eyes, who I see is you. Show me the way, Rynna. Show me the way out of it. Fuck. Please, show me the way. ~ A.L. Jackson

You don't live in the past; you take a sledgehammer to it to see what stands so that you can build on it. ~ Samuel L. Drew

Fight for what you love. For what's important. Cherish it. Only a fool believes there's a good enough reason to le love go. ~ A.L. Jackson