Samuel L. Jackson Quotes
We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
-
My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
-
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
-
Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
-
There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
-
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
-
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
-
I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
-
I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
-
I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
-
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
-
My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
-
I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
-
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
-
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
-
It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.
-
I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
-
I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'
-
I collected X-Men, Spider-Man, and Daredevil comics. I definitely had a few Captain America comics lying around in those protective plastic baggies.
-
I'm an actor, so sometimes there are moments where I think about everything that's happening and I want to cry. I'm doing what I love and I will be doing it for a very, very long time - and it's amazing. A lot of people don't get to do that.
-
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.
-
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books - but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
-
...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.
-
We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
