Samuel L. Jackson Quotes, Thoughts and images

Just 'cause you pour syrup on something doesnt make it pancakes

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

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

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

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

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

If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.

Girl, don't make me put my foot in your ass.

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 know me. It's my duty to please that booty.

I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.

Those that have loved longest love best.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

I'm as serious as a heart attack.

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

I trust most people. Not producers.

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.'

I don't run around shooting people. Much. I only shoot two people a year. Maybe.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

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

I love comic books and I love anime.

I used to like watching Helen Mirren's early films, because she was always naked. It's titillating.

Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.

Not everything's made to win an Academy Award.

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

I run into a lot of kids who are either on R&R, or on their way to Iraq. They all know who I am and are fans, but they're kids! I am yet to meet one that's over 23. Yet they're full-time warriors.

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

Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived through it. I lived in it. I was of it.

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.