L Jackson Quotes & Sayings

How could I not?" My hand fluttered in her direction, wishing I could make every fucking inch of space separating us disappear. "I lied to you, Aly. That night ... " I swallowed hard as my attention shot to the place where I'd left her behind before I angled it back on her. "I left knowing I could never forget you, but praying somehow you could forget me. And I know I shouldn't be here. I know I should give you a chance to forget, but, Aly ... I miss you. — A.L. Jackson

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz. — Samuel L. Jackson

You're my world, Samantha. Everything I do, from now until the end of time, I'm going to be doing for you. — A.L. Jackson

I have a lot more energy than I used to have. I sleep better. I like the way I look in my clothes better. I don't cramp as much. I exercise better. I think my circulation has gotten better. — Samuel L. Jackson

You see ... there's this girl who's on my mind every second of every day, and she drives me kind of crazy because I don't really understand the hold she has on me. But she has me in a way no one else ever has and more than anyone else ever will. And this girl ... she needed me, and I didn't think twice about that jump, because getting in deep with her is the only place I ever want to be. — A.L. Jackson

your life tells the story of which forces control you! — Sheila L. Jackson

I never wanted you to see me like I was tonight," he said, "but it was inevitable ... all of this is ... inevitable. And still I stay because I don't fucking know how to walk away from you. Last night ... " He wrenched a trembling hand through his hair. "Fuck, Aly ... last night was the closest I've come to feeling something real in so long. — A.L. Jackson

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him. — Samuel L. Jackson

Every person who changed the world did it by doing something everyone around them was unwilling to do. — Tiffany L. Jackson

The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated the turn of the year from the death of winter to the life of spring - the winter solstice. As this was an auspicious change the festival was a very joyous one ... The giving of presents and the burning of candles characterized it. Among the Northern people the lighting of a huge log in the houses of the great and with appropriate ceremonies was a feature. — Samuel L. Jackson

If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it. — Samuel L. Jackson

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun. — Samuel L. Jackson

Todoroff is the best. Look no further. — Samuel L. Jackson

This is for you, for us. I wanted a tattoo of you on my skin, because I can't show you the one you've already left on my heart. — Gina L. Maxwell

Baby, I wish I could tell you how much I love you, how much you mean to me."
He nuzzled my cheek and continued down my neck, setting a fire across my skin, churning coals that burst into flames deep within my soul.
"Show me. — A.L. Jackson

I don't know how to stop loving you. — A.L. Jackson

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

No, baby, I like the dress.
I was just going to like it much, much more in a pile on my bedroom floor. — A.L. Jackson

At times it may feel as if we are helpless to what happens to us, and that things happen without rhyme or reason. Rest assured that no matter how choppy the sea gets or how the wind blows, Jesus is on the boat. — Tiffany L. Jackson

When beauty breathes life back into the broken — A.L. Jackson

Promise me," I grunted in desperation as I moved against her. "Promise you'll never leave me. — A.L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is. — Joel Siegel

Each time I saw you, I felt like ... I felt like I knew you a little bit better. I never talked to you but seeing you always smiling or laughing ... or being peaceful ... " He shook his head, and my heart spasmed. "There's something about that ... it drew me in, Calla. Fuck. I fell for you before you even knew my name. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I've been training with my mixed martial arts guy as much as I can when I'm back in L.A., so if I could do another movie like I did in 'The Killing Game,' with Samuel L. Jackson, that would be awesome. — Kellan Lutz

Never stop believing in magic. — A.L. Jackson

I keep saying that, if Samuel L. Jackson and Bette Davis could have a baby, it would be Taraji P. Henson. To me, she's one of the greatest character actors of our generation, let alone leading ladies. She's just phenomenal in everything she does. — Jussie Smollett

Fight for what you love. For what's important. Cherish it. Only a fool believes there's a good enough reason to le love go. — A.L. Jackson

Maybe my steps were slow. Maybe it was because I was relishing each one, like each represented an obstacle we'd had to climb, the trials we'd had to overcome. Maybe each one was a triumph, each a celebration.
Even though each step was measured, in reality, I was running toward him.
Running toward my forever.
Because I realized I didn't have one without Christian.
He was my all. — A.L. Jackson

How could I relax when I had to welcome Christian into my home, the one who had wounded me deeper than anyone, the one who haunted my days and held me in my dreams? — A.L. Jackson

For so long, I'd wanted to hear those words fall from her lips. I'd just had no idea that in those words there would be so much sadness, that they would be tainted by years of her sorrow, and that my own thrill in finally hearing her say them aloud would be tarnished by the immense amount of resentment over what she had done. — A.L. Jackson

She was never supposed to belong to me. Yet there she was, standing at the very end of the hall, peering over at me. Mine. — A.L. Jackson

I can't live without you. I haven't lived a day without you. — A.L. Jackson

I've always been your girl. You just didn't know it. — A.L. Jackson

You are everything I never expected. Never anticipated. Everything I never knew I'd need. — A.L. Jackson

Its all for love... L.O.V.E. — Michael Jackson

Erin called us soul mates, but I ... I've always known it was more than that. It's like we share the same soul, and when we're apart, each half is looking for the other. — A.L. Jackson

Even as damaged as I knew he was, this gorgeous man was my perfection. — A.L. Jackson

[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch ... — Shirley Jackson

The truer you are to yourself, the greater your gifts will manifest themselves. — Tiffany L. Jackson

Maybe the most important question was the one that burned bright, the one that nagged, the one that promised Christian could never be scraped from my consciousness. No blade was sharp enough. No cut could ever go deep enough. — A.L. Jackson

I was there. Because of a boy. A boy who reminded me I was brave. — A.L. Jackson

And their hearts. They tumbled and spunned.
Swelled and grow.
Overflowed.
Two empty lives that had been so hollow.
Two lives that now brimmed so full. — A.L. Jackson

Don't want to leave behind any question of how much I love you. — A.L. Jackson

Fear in and of itself is never a valid reason not to do something. — Tiffany L. Jackson

Public acceptance will never replace self-love. Nor will group membership add, create, or dictate your value. — Tiffany L. Jackson

And be willing to live in peace when there are wars raging all around you. — A.L. Jackson

I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected. — Samuel L. Jackson

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

Live life to the fullest even when it might feel empty. — A.L. Jackson

I missed nine years. With trembling hands, he held me, his anguish apparent, and I could hold back no longer. — A.L. Jackson

If we truly believe and understand how omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent God is, we should know He is better equipped to lead our life than we are. — Tiffany L. Jackson

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.' — Samuel L. Jackson

I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs. — Samuel L. Jackson

Don't you know that's what college is about ... students spending years gathering useless information they'll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so they feel smarter than the rest of their family? I mean, that's why I worked so hard to get here, anyway. — A.L. Jackson

I was too young to understand who Sam[uel L.] Jackson was or who Bruce Willis was, who Jeremy Irons was at the time. All I knew was that they were good to me then. — Aldis Hodge

You grew up on me, Aly, he murmured, the words rough, almost in awe. — A.L. Jackson

But Medicine is a demonstrative Science, and all its processes should be proved by established principles, and be based on positive inductions. That the proceedings of Medicine are not of this character, in to be attributed to the manner of its cultivation, and not to the nature of the Science itself. — Samuel L. Jackson

I'm going to walk away and I'm going to forget about you, Aly. And you're going to do the same. — A.L. Jackson

How did I ever stay away from you?" Gentle fingertips caressed my cheeks, my lips, ran over my chin and down my neck. His palm came to rest on my chest, his fingers splayed out over my heart. It thrummed in devotion against his hand. "I heard this calling out for me every day." His breath whispered across my face, his words so sad, filled with so much regret. "Did you hear mine? — A.L. Jackson

Sometimes one of my ways of choosing movies that I want to do is if it's the kind of movie I would have gone to see when I was a kid, and this is a movie I actually did go see, as a kid. And I think it will be exciting for audiences to see now. — Samuel L. Jackson

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want. — Samuel L. Jackson

He's going to the hair doctor. The man's going bald." You hadn't noticed that whole underdeveloped region right up in here?"
Oh, you're one to talk, Slick."
Nah. See, when a black man goes bald, he still looks good. Look at Michael Jordan, George Foreman, Samuel L. Jackson, Classy-lookin' brothers, Who you got? Kojak? — Alex Kendrick

You know me. It's my duty to please that booty. — Samuel L. Jackson

Pain will never lessen without forgiveness, it will only manifest as anger and harden into resentment or bitterness. — Tiffany L. Jackson

When people want me to sign an autograph in a restaurant, and I'm eating. I don't even have to say no, I just kind of stop and look at them ... "Oh, okay. I'll ... I'll come back." — Samuel L. Jackson

His love was so intense, yet his soul held so much sorrow. I wondered if his hurt went so deep that he could never heal. — A.L. Jackson

And it killed me because I could never forget him. Couldn't because he'd permanently etched himself to me, left a part of himself forever within me. For so many years I'd loved him, but when he'd gone this time, he'd taken a part of me captive too, a piece that could never be retrieved because it would always belong to him ... — A.L. Jackson

You were my first crush." She sobered, her voice strained as sincere green eyes slanted up to me . "And my only love." Her throat bobbed as she swallowed, almost painfully. "I've been waiting for you my whole life. — A.L. Jackson

Famed basketball coach Phil Jackson, a meditator himself, arranged to have his players - first the Chicago Bulls, and then the L.A. Lakers - learn meditation as a way to improve their focus and teamwork. Jackson finds that mindfulness assists players in paying attention to what's happening on the court moment by moment. Such precise training in attention has paid off during tense playoffs; Jackson has led more teams to championships than any coach in NBA history. Meditation — Sharon Salzberg

Jared, no. Please don't do this. Don't leave me. I love you. — A.L. Jackson

Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen. — Trevor Rabin

It was actually a lot more helpful to have Calvin Hart, a cop, as my template. He was also my technical advisor on Shaft. This time, I kinda got to go to Jersey City with him, and hang around, and watch him interact with other cops, people in the projects, and see what it means to be him. People call him 'Big Daddy' and he's this larger-than-life hero to a lot of people. — Samuel L. Jackson

I don't remember how to breathe without you. — A.L. Jackson

I'm as serious as a heart attack. — Samuel L. Jackson

Never would I take what I'd been given for granted. I'd never look at her through indifferent eyes, listen to her fears and worries with distant ears, or touch her with impassive hands. Elizabeth was a gift and Lizzie was my treasure. I would adore my family until the day I died. — A.L. Jackson

Life, a spirit roused, two souls rejoined, marking it the most significant moment in my life as she became one with me. — A.L. Jackson

I guess when you loved someone, you were willing to accept all the pieces and factors and fragments that made them up, the sum of those adding up to the whole, and you were left with no choice but to wholly accept the total of that creation. — A.L. Jackson

I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game. — Joel Kinnaman

to some asshole who has more credit in his pockets than I do? Not going to happen. — D.L. Jackson

Go bring me back my daughter. — A.L. Jackson

And each time, he slipped a little deeper into my bones. — A.L. Jackson

Tell me you want me, too..Tell me you lie in bed at night and when you close your eyes, you see me. Because all I can see is you. — A.L. Jackson

But I knew... I knew I was the only one who fit I that void, because it was Elizabeth that perfectly filled mine, too. — A.L. Jackson

I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don't go to nightclubs. I don't go out to dinner that often. I'm not a big party guy. — Samuel L. Jackson

Was it wrong that all I wanted to do was kiss her?
I smiled, and Maggie blushed.
Oh God. So cute.
I knew then, I'd give this girl anything she asked me for. I'd probably beg her to take it. — A.L. Jackson

That guy's out there. Promise you, darlin'. He's out there looking for you, and one day, he'll find you. He'll find you because you deserve him. Don't you dare settle for anything less than him. You got me? — A.L. Jackson

Where there's beauty, there's also pain. — A.L. Jackson

The line from Pulp Fiction - the one Samuel L. Jackson shouts at John Travolta as they're trying to wash blood off their hands - pops into my head: 'I used the same soap you did and when I dried my hands, the towel didn't look like no fuckin' maxi-pad!' I almost - almost - share this most quotable of cinematic quotes with him, when I remember it contains The Word. You know: 'maxi-pad. — Elle Lothlorien

Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho. — Samuel L. Jackson

If my heart was mine to give, I'd give it to you. — A.L. Jackson

Trust yourself more than you trust the words of others. — Tiffany L. Jackson

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President. — Samuel L. Jackson

So Shea sang her praise, thanking God she got to be right there, because Shea's favorite places were the ones where she got to be with her grandma. — A.L. Jackson

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years. — Samuel L. Jackson

Hearts have a way of finding their way home. — A.L. Jackson

I miss Texas so bad. That's the hard part about being out here in L.A., trying to pursue acting and music and lighting and production and stuff. It takes a lot of time out from your personal life, and I can only get back to Texas three times a year at most. It's tough. — Jackson Rathbone

I turned to him, wishing for nothing more than to tell him who I was.
That I was supposed to be Melanie's husband, not him.
That I adored her more than any other creature that had ever lived and always would.
That I had every intention of taking her away from him. — A.L. Jackson

I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up. — Samuel L. Jackson

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them ... That's American politics, pure and simple. — Samuel L. Jackson

When you think about the success you desire, don't forget that God's "not yet" doesn't mean "not ever. — Tiffany L. Jackson