Samuel L. Jackson Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HomeFriendsChooseGoMoviesKind

I became known as the guy who did the worst show in the history of television.

Jerry Van Dyke

HistoryTelevisionWorstGuyShow

Handmade things tend to be so expensive that only a small part of the population can afford them. And yet making things with hands is such an essential part of being human.

Jessica Stockholder

SmallHandsHumanBeing HumanThings

My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost.

Shinzo Abe

HopeEndWillHumanFirstRights

Most people I talked to, they'd be like, your first is your worst, because you go on and everybody's probably done more than you, so you get that sense that they're on a whole different level. But they just made me feel like a piece of the family.

RJ Cyler

FamilyPeopleMeFeelYouDone

I love leaving the door open to good ideas. I love the collaborative swirl. I get charged by problem-solving, usually under some kind of stress - the sun is going down, and we have eight minutes, and we have to solve it. Great things come out of it.

Ron Howard

LoveGoodGreatStressSunIdeas

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

Mohnish Pabrai

PeopleFreeThinkRealityYouWant

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

Julia Leigh

AthleteConcentrationEliteWriter

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.

Jason Mitchell

BookWantActorThroughKeepGoing

Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.

Janine Turner

WinterProfessionalNewPhotographer

We're playing at our level of ability.

Dee Dee Ramone

AbilityPlayingLevelOur

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

Chris Abani

MotherParentsSheTwoLivedFoot

Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.

Colin Cunningham

WorkWishYouWillMoreBe Careful

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Samuel L. Jackson