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I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
Samuel L. Jackson
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Samuel L. Jackson
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 21
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Samuel Leroy Jackson
Sam Jackson
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If you are a Jedi, just understand something: people are going to be chasing you. The Jedi Council of every city you enter is going to be chasing you. I've been accosted by the Jedi Council in Rio and everywhere else.
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I used to like watching Helen Mirren's early films, because she was always naked. It's titillating.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.'
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Girl, don't make me put my foot in your ass.
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When I'd read the script [The Man], [ Eugene Levy] that's who I'd seen in my mind. When I ran into him, I said to him, 'I read the script. You'd be great.' He had no idea what I was talking about. Then, we saw each other again in London. He'd read it and was enthused about it.
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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.
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I don't get the great story line, action, mystery scripts I get comedies. And relationship comedies are what I do. It's what attracted me to American Pie.
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My ass may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass.
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