Samuel L. Jackson movie quotes

“- Doyle's Sponsor: What happened in court today?
- Doyle Gipson: I'm in a bar. What does that tell you?
- Doyle's Sponsor: It tells me that you're really angry. And that anger has gotten you into the one place in the world you shouldn't be.”
William Hurt - Doyle's Sponsor
Samuel L. Jackson - Doyle Gipson

“America is a war and you are on the other side. How's a black man ever going to get a fair trial with the enemy on the bench and in the jury box? My life in white hands? You Jake, that's how. You are my secret weapon because you are one of the bad guys.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey

“- Zeus Carver: Didn't I hear you say you didn't even like your brother?
- Simon Gruber: There's a difference, you know, between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Zeus Carver
Jeremy Irons - Simon Gruber

“- Zeus Carvr: I told you 9th Avenue is the quickest way south.
- John McClane: Stop all the goddamn yellin'! I know what I'm doing.
- Zeus Carver: Not even God knows what you're doing!”

Samuel L. Jackson - Zeus Carver
Bruce Willis - John McClane

“Jackie can tell me any story that comes into her pretty little head, just so long as at the end of that story she hands me my motherfucking money.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Ordell Robbie

“- Jules Winnfield: Good. Looks like me an Vincent caught you boys at breakfast. Sorry about that. Whatcha havin'?
- Brett: Hamburgers.
- Jules Winnfield: Hamburgers! The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Jules Winnfield
Frank Whaley - Brett

“- Sam: Last game here I'm playing myself.
- Fresh: You're losing to yourself.
- Sam: Yeah, life's a bitch like that.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Sam
Sean Nelson - Fresh

“- Elmo McElroy: What the fuck did they do to this fish? Batter it to death?
- Felix DeSouza: Fish and chips, national dish mate.
- Elmo McElroy: More like a national disaster!”
Samuel L. Jackson - Elmo McElroy
Robert Carlyle - Felix DeSouza

“- Dr. Norman Goodman: I would be happy if Jerry had no emotions whatsoever. Because the thing of it is once you go down that road... here's Jerry, an emotional being cooped up for 300 years with no one to talk to... none of the socialization, the emotional growth that comes from contact with other emotional beings...
- Dr. Harry Adams: So...?
-...” (continue)(continue reading)

Dustin Hoffman - Dr. Norman Goodman
Samuel L. Jackson - Dr. Harry Adams

“- Jules Winnfiled: I'm not giving you that money. I'm buying something from you. Wanna know what I'm buyin' Ringo?
- Pumpkin: What?
- Jules Winnfiled: Your life. I'm givin' you that money so I don't have to kill your ass.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Jules Winnfield
Tim Roth - Pumpkin

“I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Mitch Henessey

“Now that we know who you are, I know who I am. I'm not a mistake! It all makes sense! In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain's going to be? He's the exact opposite of the hero. And most times they're friends, like you and me!”

Samuel L. Jackson - Elijah Price

“- Jackie Brown: So I sit down at the table, eat my food, then your girl comes along. You have anybody yet?
- Ordell Robbie: Yeah, I got someone.
- Jackie Brown: Who?
- Ordell Robbie: What you care?
- Jackie Brown: What I care is my ass facing the penitentiary. If you send some hard-headed rock whore up in here.”

Pam Grier - Jackie Brown
Samuel L. Jackson - Ordell Robbie

“You're playing each piece like losing it hurts. This ain't checkers. You want my king, you got to come get my king. All these other pieces are just the means to do it.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Sam

“What I want is my morning back. I need you to give my time back to me. Can you give me back my time? Can you give my time back to me? Huh? Can you?”

Samuel L. Jackson - Doyle Gipson

“- Xander Cage: What is this place?
- Agent Augustus Gibbons: Looks like a diner.
- Xander Cage: That's clever. You know, you almost had me going there for a while. Then I started noticing things. You got a stockbroker over here, all dressed up reading the Financial Times on a Sunday morning when the market's closed.”
Vin Diesel - Xander Cage
Samuel L. Jackson - Agent Augustus Gibbons

“- Jake Tyler Brigance: We're not the same, Carl Lee. The jury has to identify with the defendant. They see you, they see a yardworker; they see me, they see an attorney. I live in town, you live in the hill.
- Carl Lee Hailey: Well, you are white and I'm black. See Jake, you think just like them, that's why I picked you; you are one of them,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matthew McConaughey - Jake Tyler Brigance
Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey

“One of us has made a gross error, and wasted the other person's valuable time.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Elijah Price

“You can't trust Melanie but you can trust Melanie to be Melanie.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Ordell Robbie

“- Trevor Garfield: Your whole way of life is bullshit! Macho is bullshit!
- Cesar: It's all I got!”
Samuel L. Jackson - Trevor Garfield
Clifton Collins Jr. - Cesar Sanchez

“- Ordell Robbie: I hate to be the kinda nigga does a nigga a favor, then bam, hits a nigga up for a favor in return. But I'm afraid I got to be that kinda nigga.
- Beaumont Livingston: Whatchu mean?
- Ordell Robbie: I need a favor, nigga!”
Samuel L. Jackson - Ordell Robbie
Chris Tucker - Beaumont Livingston

“- John McClane: Listen, you fail I cover your ass. I fail you cover my ass!
- Zeus Carver: And if we both fail?
- John McClane: Then we're both fucked.”
Bruce Willis - John McClane
Samuel L. Jackson - Zeus Carver

“- Lucius Best: You tell me where my suit is, woman! We are talking about the greater good!
- Honey: 'Greater good?' I am your wife! I'm the greatest good you are ever gonna get!”

Samuel L. Jackson - Lucius Best
Kimberly Adair Clark - Honey

“I never really missed being a two legger... but the sea... I wish I could smell the sea again.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Rumbo

“- Mitch Henessey: You're telling me that you're gonna fake some terrorist thing, just to scare some money out of Congress?
- Leland Perkins: Well, unfortunately, Mr. Hennessey, I have no idea how to fake killing 4,000 people - so we're just gonna have to do it for real. Blame it on the Muslims, naturally. Then I get my funding.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Mitch Henessey
Patrick Malahide - Perkins