Can you help me find a Samuel L. Jackson Quote (see details!)
Ok, Google and Brainy Quotes and the IMDB aren’t helping. Anyway, the gist of Jackson’s quote is buried in one of his reflections on Django Unchained and the portrayal of African Americans. Not the controversial issue of him challenging a reporter to say the N-word. (Although the coaxing of the reporter is quite entertaining, if this article is to be believed.)
Anyway, the way I remember the quote was along the lines of Jackson saying, were you put off by the role, and Jackson said: “A gig is a gig” or something along those lines. Any help?
Oh, and I found this quote on IMDB which made me crack up: on Snakes on A Plane: I stand by that movie!
Anyway, if anyone can help me find that quote, it would be really useful. Thanks!
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I wouldn’t know how to find the quote, but I remember that he uttered the words while talking about advice he’d received from Morgan Freeman. I remember that according to Jackson, Freeman told him to never turn down a role unless it conflicted with a part he’d already accepted.
What about: what’s in your wallet? :D
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This question’s been nagging me, and I kept thinking that maybe I heard the quote on Terri Gross’s “Fresh Air”, because I know that I was in a car and could swear that she was interviewing him when Jackson talked about Freeman giving him that piece of advice. So I pulled up a podcast of the only Jackson interview on the program that I could locate and it turns out that the interviewer for that particular episode was Dave Davies. I listened to it all the way through and it was both funny and informative but no cigar. The quote wasn’t there.
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I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O’Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw ‘The Negro’ get one over on ‘The Man.’
All movies aren’t fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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