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Samuel L. Jackson Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality:
Birth: December 21, 1948

Topics

Walk Simple Famous Train Create Go

Immersing myself in Shakespeare's plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant, plain-spoken professor changed my life: It opened up the great questions; it put my petty problems into perspective. It got me out of bed in the mornings and kept me in the library late into the night.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Life Great Myself Perspective Me

My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.

Jess Glynne

Child People Me Growing Up Destiny

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

Andrew Stanton

Me Think Someone Marketing Never

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Character You Finish Empty Film

Our economy grew at double the rate of the nation. We created 1.3 million jobs. We led the nation seven out of those eight years. We were only one of two states that went to AAA bond rating. I cut taxes, $19 billion. If you do that and apply conservative principles the right way, you create an environment where everybody rises up.

Jeb Bush

Bond Environment You Create Way

My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma.

Johnny Bench

Company Oklahoma Owned Dad

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Best Training Bag Speed You Need

Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

Shiv Khera

Goals People End Three Up Working

We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest 'must-haves', whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they 'have' to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.

Tom Hodgkinson

Work Shoes Advertising Think Result

I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.

Rupert Everett

Think Try Adventurous Everything

Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

Jay McInerney

Image Successful Star Who Movie Star

We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation.

Joseph Hume

Food Place Price More Level Cheaper