Samuel L. Jackson famous quotes

Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#May #Making Changes #Bigger

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.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Book #Party #Home

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

#Sleep #Exercise #Thinking

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

#Party #Clothes #Car

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

#Gun #People #Shooting

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."
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#People #Looks #Want

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

#Opportunity #Voice #Use

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

#Thinking #Guy #Challenges

I dont understand how people live without creating
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Creating #People

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

#Real #Thinking #Together

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Eye #Two #White

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

#Want #Way #Stories

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

#Character #Thinking #Play

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

#Writing #Paint #Bigs

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Mistake #Character #Mean

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

#Drama #Want #Way

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.'
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Kings #Real #Thinking

Sometimes one of my ways of choosing movies that I want to do is if it's the kind of movie I would have gone to see when I was a kid, and this is a movie I actually did go see, as a kid. And I think it will be exciting for audiences to see now.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Kids #Thinking #Gone

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.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Lynching #Racism #People

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.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Advice #Given #Equal

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

#Daughter #Names #Wife

I love comic books and I love anime.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Book #Anime #Comic Book

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

#Drinking #Beer #Years

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Happiness

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.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Simple #People #Black

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

#Anger #Thinking #Space

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

#Kissing #Long #Kiss Me

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Thinking #Members #Audience

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

#Golf #Play

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Husband #Father #Character

Todoroff is the best. Look no further.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Looks

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

#Dumb #May #Dumbasses

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

#Book #Mean #Enjoy Life

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

#Girl #Feet #Ass

If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Opportunity #May #Use

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.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Fun #Real #Hard Work

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Artist #Too Much #Sensitive

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

#Spring #Winter #Years

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

#Real #Simple #Actors

But Medicine is a demonstrative Science, and all its processes should be proved by established principles, and be based on positive inductions. That the proceedings of Medicine are not of this character, in to be attributed to the manner of its cultivation, and not to the nature of the Science itself.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Character #Medicine #Principles

Those that have loved longest love best.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Love #Best Love #Love Is

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

#Running #Golf #Kilts

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

#Jail #Locked Up

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

#Want #Kind #Western

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

#Music #Thinking #Jazz

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.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Mother #Daughter #Dad

You know me. It's my duty to please that booty.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Booty #Duty #Please

I'm as serious as a heart attack.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Heart #Serious #Heart Attack

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

#Skills

I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Classic #Film

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Running #Black #President

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.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Kids #Home #Saws

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

#Life Changing #Changed

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.
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#America #Needs #World

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

#Meaningful #Way #Want

Just 'cause you pour syrup on something doesnt make it pancakes
-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Causes #Syrup #Pancakes

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

#Selfish #Believe #Heart