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I used to like watching Helen Mirren's early films, because she was always naked. It's titillating.
Samuel L. Jackson
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Samuel L. Jackson
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 21
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Washington
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Samuel Leroy Jackson
Sam Jackson
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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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