Samuel L. Jackson Quotes

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

Samuel L. Jackson

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• I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Life
  • Time
  • Yourself

• It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Day
  • See
  • Everyday

• The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Law

• There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

  

  Victoria Principal
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Acting

• An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Artist
  • Everything
  • Eclipse

• I feel like every day I discover new actors and new filmmakers and different genres, and it's just so cool.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Different
  • Day
  • Cool

• Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Day
  • Gift

• On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
  • Value
  • Heroism

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

  

  O. R. Melling
  • Day
  • Always
  • Two

• Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Country
  • History
  • Day

• Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Good
  • Business
  • Day

• I worked in Licorice Pizza when John Lennon was killed. I had the day off, but I came in anyway because people needed a place to mourn.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • People
  • Day
  • Pizza

• Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Artist
  • Rights
  • Manager

• I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Day

• I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Men
  • Day
  • Door

• That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

  

  Miranda July
  • Dream
  • Day
  • Moving

• The best thing I probably do is - I'll say I'm a pretty darn good parent. I got good kids.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Games

• I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Money
  • Know
  • Audience

• I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Day
  • Artist
  • Everyday