Samuel L. Jackson Quotes

I see myself on top, doing what I love to do, and doing it the way I want to do it. No rules, just doing my own thing.

I just want to be able to do something that's interesting to me.

I guess it's a personal preference. Me, personally, I like to be able to tell the stories that I want to tell and do the things that I want to do. It takes a little bit more work, but that's what the production side is.

I'll sing for my films only when I want to.

When you make drama you are like Picasso. Drama is whatever you want it to be.

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

Let me live my life the way I want to.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

My whole mode is to do what I want to do and let people understand me through that.

You get to be your own curator of your own exhibits inside.

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.

I like to let the actors work the way they want to.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

At a certain point people want to see other movies besides comic book movies so you have to be really careful what you're going to pick, and how many are going to be released within a year.

Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.