A Quote by Samuel L. Jackson

I'm a one-take kind of guy, except I don't do it in one take. — © Samuel L. Jackson
I'm a one-take kind of guy, except I don't do it in one take.
As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to understand things. No bad guy looks in the mirror every morning and says, boy, I'm gonna be a real bad guy this morning. He goes after his own what he's after, just like us good guys. You kind of have to take a stand and, a lot of times, you have to take the writer's stand or the stand of the character this writer has created.
Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down. His trained hand and eye and judgment are as much a part of his armament as his machinegun, and a fiftyfifty chance is the worst he will take or should take except where the show is of the kind that . . . justifies the sacrifice of plane or pilot.
I'm not the one or two take guy, but I'm not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it's usually for some technical reasons.
I'm a one-take kind of guy.
I take that stage, and I'm the same guy backstage as I am on the stage. And you know what that guy is. That guy is a star. That guy is a champion. That guy is the guy that put '205 Live' on the map.
The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.
We will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that we have no sense of humor.
I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.
I didn't want to take the typical action roles that everybody was expecting me to take, because I was going to get typecast as that guy, the action guy who didn't have anything really bright to say and who just kicked in doors and punched people in the face and shot people and drove off in a cool car. I didn't want to be that guy.
If I never have anything from him except this one moment I am going to take it. Take it now, or drown in regret later.
I take life as it comes and am a chilled out kind of guy.
I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.
You have to take care of your guys. If a guy underperforms, you get rid of him. If a guy overperforms, you take care of him.
I can't take so much of burden on my head, I am a happy-go-lucky guy, I don't take pressure.
You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.
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