Quotes from Samuel L. Jackson

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

I love to play real people... good people that I know the audience will get behind. It's the good people in the world that I gravitate to.

I love coming in for quick pops. You come in. You score. You leave. You're on the golf course. It's great. You don't carry any story.

I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.

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."

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

Just because people don't trust people doesn't mean [they] don't like them. There are lots of paranoid people in the world. You figure out their personalities and make them work.

I think the biggest challenges for franchises are keeping them fresh and exciting, and most times, you need a good bad guy to make that thing continually work, and sometimes they don't.

Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

Certain comedians work with certain actors; like Adam Sandler worked with Jack Nicholson.

All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

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.

If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.

It's often hope, hopeful movie making. You're always looking for catchphrases. That's always funny, when you're looking for that future line. "Uh oh, future line. Okay."