Samuel L. Jackson Quotes

Take a stand for what’s right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you’ll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool.

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

You know me. It’s my duty to please that booty.

My ass may be dumb, but I ain’t no dumbass.

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.

You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you thought they were going to do… which is screw you over.

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.

I don’t understand how people live without creating.

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.

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

Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it

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