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I'm a character actor and that's what I do. All the roles that I've had have been mainly support roles, because character actors don't usually get the lead in movies. It rarely happens.

Samuel L. Jackson

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Samuel L. Jackson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 21
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Television Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Washington
District of Columbia
Samuel Leroy Jackson
Sam Jackson
Sam L Jackson
Sam L. Jackson
Sam Leroy Jackson
Roles
Movies
Support
Actors
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Those are the rules. To improvise in a movie with other people, when they're following a script, everybody has to know what's going on. I think a line or two we might change. Certainly, I do. But I wouldn't call it improvising. I'd call it fudging the lines.
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When I'm not working, I like to play golf.
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