Latest Samuel L. Jackson Quotes from Interviews

Quotes about:

• I said to George Lucas, "I'd like a purple lightsaber." And he said, "Why?" and I said, "I just want to be able to find myself. I'm the most powerful Jedi in the universe, and I think it would be an interesting thing for me to have a different color lightsaber than anybody else."

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Powerful, Thinking, Interesting

• 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."

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Hopeful, Okay

• Die Hard With A Vengeance shooting was a great time, because we had an interesting script. The first script was called Simon Says, and something was going on, because some days we'd get to work, but we wouldn't actually have dialogue. We would go to Bruce's Willis trailer, and they'd say, "Okay, you have to go from 168th Street to 97th Street today. We're going to do it in the cab, and Sam, you say this. Bruce, what do you want to say?" And that's how Bruce's "hey, Zeus!" thing came up.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Interesting, Today, Vengeance

• I often think, "How many ways have I died in the movies?" I guess I can find out now. I'm always thinking of ways that I haven't died. "Well, I've been killed this way in this movie, but I haven't died this way yet." I don't think I've ever been guillotined, or anything like that.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Thinking

• Quentin Tarantino was talking about Ordell a little bit, and I was like, "I'm sure Ordell is one of those people who thought Superfly was the greatest movie ever made." So he cuts his hair and straightens it, but he never has enough money to maintain it perfectly. So it's kind of nappy around the edges, straight and kind of puffed up. That's why he'd always keep it in a ponytail or a braid. We were just having fun and creating a distinctive character.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Fun, Character, Cutting

• I enjoyed being at Jurassic Park, with Jeff Goldblum and Sir Richard Attenborough. It's funny, because Steven Spielberg would actually operate the camera sometimes. He'd consider the camera, and he'd be kind of looking at me. He actually shot a few of the things that I'm in, in that lab, with that long ash dangling off that cigarette. Hogging that fake cigarette. Because I had quit smoking, and he wanted to make sure I didn't go back, so he got me the worst-tasting fake cigarettes ever.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Long, Jurassic Park, Fake

• Hair is very, very distinctive. I started that with that boxing movie I did, The Great White Hype. The director wanted me to look like Don King, and everybody knew who Don King was. But I didn't want to be Don King. I wanted the man to be Rev. Fred Sultan, so I decided to make him look like Julius Caesar. And from that point on, I just decided, I had this great wig-maker, so I just found hairstyles that I felt would be distinctive for every character. Like an adventure.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Adventure, Character, Men

• I was Gator in Jungle Fever, and Chris Rock played Pookie, and those showed two very different dynamics of what crackheads were. Mine was more about the family relationships. So when people sat there and got that, they can sit there and say, "Oh, man, that's my friend." Or "That's my brother." Or cousin or somebody. They empathize, or they had something that they could latch onto, in that particular movie, of my story, and go with it.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Cousin, Brother, Men

• I was desperate on Coming To America set - not to buy drugs or anything, but I had a person at home, a girlfriend who's telling you, "You're out the bills and food. You need this, you need that. And you either get it, or don't come back." That was me.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Girlfriend, Home, Drug

• I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Book, Reading, Literature

• I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do. It gives them a sort of familiarity that other people don't have.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  People, Giving, Familiarity

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Thinking, Snakes, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to people who watch it.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Character, Mean, Play

  Source: www.ign.com

• Everybody has to learn that the world works in very specific ways, and you're not in charge of it.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  World, Way

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• 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.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Book, People, Needs

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

• Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Thinking, Ordinary World, Extraordinary Person

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Comedian, Actors, Adam

  Source: www.hollywood.com

• I think I've had my taste.I got to work with Sam [L.Jackson]. I can say I did it. I had my shot. I'd love to do something with [Robert] De Niro or Dustin Hoffman or Al Pacino. Those are guys I grew up watching. That would be wonderful. Now that I've gotten a taste working with a bona fide movie star, I think I'd be more prepared to go head to head with some of the big boys.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Stars, Thinking, Boys

  Source: www.hollywood.com

• The thing I get the most [in public] is, 'Hey, Eugene.' You know what I mean? There's no catch phrase like: 'What a week I'm having.' People will actually just say, 'Hey, Eugene' or 'Hi, Eugene.' It's a great thing; they feel that comfortable calling me by my first name. It's not being forward. It depends how you say it. I think they can't help themselves. They think they know me. I find it gratifying.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Mean, Thinking, Names

  Source: www.hollywood.com

• I never thought I'd be working with Sam [L.Jackson] .That's about as good as it gets.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Good As It Gets

  Source: www.hollywood.com

• Sam [L.Jackson] never asks for another take because he knows what he's doing. He gives you what he thinks is the best take, and he does it on the first take.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Thinking, Giving, Doe

  Source: www.hollywood.com

• I approach my work the way an actor approaches their work. The only difference is that I do comedy, and my job is to make things funny. My style makes things sound like they're improvisational and happening right then and there.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Jobs, Differences, Style

  Source: www.hollywood.com

• I act the way I talk. It probably comes from starting out in Second City, improvisational theater. I can go from take to take. I'll ask for another take.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Cities, Starting Out, Way

  Source: www.hollywood.com

• I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Comedian, Actors, Comedic

  Source: www.hollywood.com

• 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.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Thinking, Two, People

  "‘The Man’ Interviews: Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy". www.hollywood.com.