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Samuel L. Jackson
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Samuel L. Jackson
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 21
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Samuel Leroy Jackson
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I never thought I'd be working with Sam [L.Jackson] .That's about as good as it gets.
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Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.
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I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.
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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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If there's an interesting role that comes up as a great support role in a decent picture, then I'll do that.
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My ass may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass.
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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.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.
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I love coming in for quick pops. You come in. You score. You leave. You're on the golf course. It's great. You don't carry any story.
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Everybody has to learn that the world works in very specific ways, and you're not in charge of it.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I understand the rural south because I spent a lot of time in it when I was a kid and my grandfather’s brothers were farmers and I spent time on the farm when I was a kid with them walking through the fields and working and hanging out.
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Sam [L.Jackson] never asks for another take because he knows what he's doing. He gives you what he thinks is the best take, and he does it on the first take.
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You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.
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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'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do. It gives them a sort of familiarity that other people don't have.
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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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