123 Quotes by Samuel L. Jackson

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter’s life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

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.

I’m a good son, a good father, a good husband – I’ve been married to the same woman for 30 years. I’m a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, ‘You know, that’s part of history.’

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

Young guys don’t tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.

I’ve played a lot of different cops in a lot of different law enforcement agencies.

People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one’s soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

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

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.’