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Any changes that I made to my line, I asked if I could make them, which I do in every movie. So far everybody's been gracious enough to say yes. The only improvising I do is in the movies I do with Chris Guest, which is what we do.
Samuel L. Jackson
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Samuel L. Jackson
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 21
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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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I don't run around shooting people. Much. I only shoot two people a year. Maybe.
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There are tons of stories out there. I read a lot of scripts on a weekly basis. I'm looking for stories to tell and stories that I hope will be interesting to an audience.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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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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When I saw the script [of The Man], I saw the character and knew I could do the character. It's a relationship movie, which is also what I love to do. That's what attracts me to projects.
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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.
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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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Girl, don't make me put my foot in your ass.
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I’ve consequently played a lot of different cops from a lot of different kind of law enforcement agencies.
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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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When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They need to be funny.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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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've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.
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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?
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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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You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.
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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.
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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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