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Quotes
Dictionaries are like
watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected
to be quite true.
Yoda,
the Dick Clark of the Universe-ageless.
When asked about his character in Star Wars:
Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)] "He's black.
[On the subject of his character's
inevitable death in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)]
I don't mind dying, I just don't wanna go out like some punk.
People mistake me for Laurence Fishburne all
the time. And he always gets mistaken for me. (And why not? We've both
starred in Spike Lee movies, haven't we?) Even when we're standing
together, people have called him by my name and me by his. A woman
recently ran up to him and said, 'My daughter loved you in Pulp Fiction
(1994)! Could she have your autograph?' So he signed it, 'Respectfully
yours, Samuel Jackson.'
To be frank, I am as passionate about golf
as I am about acting. I very seldom get angry at golf. The year I
started golf I had a caddie and one day I did get angry with myself and
threw a club. My caddie told me, 'You're not good enough to get mad'. I
have never thrown a club since. I enjoy my golf, it does not matter
whether I play great or badly. I let it go.
I've played Loch Lomond - that's the one
with the bogs isn't it? I played the one with the lighthouse. When we
were in Liverpool we used to take the ferry and go to Northern Ireland.
Films get in the way of my golf, but they have afforded me the chance to
play a lot of golf.
I didn't realise how much I hated that play
until I agreed to do it. I don't mind Shakespeare so much, but I really
hate Othello. Here was a guy who had been all over the world, kicking
ass, looting, plundering and probably raping the baddest babes on the
planet. The he falls in love with some teenager and loses his fucking
mind. I don't like that idea at all. I mean, how stupid was he?
People shout at me "Hey, loved that The
Matrix (1999), man!" Yeah - me too. I was actually on a plane last
year and this guy sat down next to me. Finally he said something to me,
and we started talking about Pulp Fiction (1994). He couldn't remember
the actor's name, so I tried to help and said "I think it might
have been Samuel Jackson." He jumped in "No, no, it's the
other guy, that Fishburne guy". We rode the whole flight having
that coversation and then, right at the end, he looked hard at me and
said, "You sure look familiar, you're sure you're not Laurence
Fishburne?" I said "No, and I definitely am not in Pulp
Fiction (1994) either'."
I think everyone who says they don't like
watching themselves in movies should stop lying.
People like the Ezekiel speech. I have to
say that speech about three times a week to people, just to prove that I
still know it.
I was a square for so long and it totally
amazes me that people think I am cool.
[On how his look was created in Pulp Fiction
(1994)] Quentin Tarantino wanted Jules to have a big afro. He sent this
PA out to buy a wig. She went to South Central and bought this jeri-curl
wig. And Quentin was going off, saying, 'It's got to be an afro because
he had this whole blaxploitation thing'. I told him, 'That's the South
Central look.' You look at Ice Cube and NWA. Guys had all this shit
dripping down their necks. I had already grown the sideburns out and the
mustache. It was perfect. Total Gangster.
A movie is just a movie to me. They open,
they close.
I have a place that's pretty much cemented
in Hollywood in terms of liability, box-office viability and everything
else. The only thing an Oscar would do is jack my check up maybe $1
million.
What kills me is that everybody thinks I
like jazz.
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