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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.'
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Famous
#Own
#Real
#Simple
#Walk
I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#About
#Audience
#Going
#Movies
#Think
I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#About
#Four
#Hope
#Next
#Worry
I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Anger
#Angry
#Me
#Respect
#Space
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.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Choose
#Go
#Home
#Movies
#Realize
I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Around
#Been
#Classic
#Fortunate
#Going
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.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Fun
#Hard Work
#Life
#Movies
#Work
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.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Advice
#Best
#Equal
#Me
#More
I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Because
#Did
#Formula
#Golf
#Liverpool
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Character
#Cinema
#Funny
#Thinking
#Way
I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#American
#Black
#Look
#Politics
#Simple
When I'm not working, I like to play golf.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Golf
#Like
#Play Golf
#Play
#Working
I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Daughter
#Day
#I Am
#Stand Up
#Wife
People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Day
#House
#Know
#People
#Soul
Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Kiss
#Long
#Money
#Right
#Version
I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Jail
#Locked Up
#Locked
#Never
#Up
Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Changed
#Everybody
#Get
#Life
#Movies
If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Opportunity
#Should
#Use
#Voice
#Your
I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'
- Samuel L. Jackson
#Education
#Father
#Good
#History
#Money
#Son
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