Best Samuel Jackson Quotes

#1. You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

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#2. People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

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#3. 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.'

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#4. 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.

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. Just 'cause you pour syrup on something doesnt make it pancakes

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#8. I'm as serious as a heart attack.

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#9. 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

#10. I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

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#11. I dont understand how people live without creating

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#12. Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.

Joel Siegel

#13. Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

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#14. 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

#15. If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.

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#16. 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?"

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#17. When people want me to sign an autograph in a restaurant, and I'm eating. I don't even have to say no, I just kind of stop and look at them ... "Oh, okay. I'll ... I'll come back."

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#18. 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

#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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#21. You know me. It's my duty to please that booty.

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#22. My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

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#23. It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

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

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Quentin Tarantino

#25. We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

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

Joel Kinnaman

#27. I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.

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#28. I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them ... That's American politics, pure and simple.

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#29. All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

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#30. 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

#31. I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don't go to nightclubs. I don't go out to dinner that often. I'm not a big party guy.

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#32. We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.

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#33. Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

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#34. My ass may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass.

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#35. Todoroff is the best. Look no further.

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#36. The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

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