Academy Quote by Samuel L. Jackson Download Open image “Not everything's made to win an Academy Award.” — Samuel L. Jackson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Academy Academy award Academy awards Awards Made Winning
Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity. — Christian Kane Copy Share Image
It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award. — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved. — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do. It gives… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be part of… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
Quentin Tarantino was talking about Ordell a little bit, and I was like, "I'm sure Ordell is one of those people who thought Superfly… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
I was desperate on Coming To America set - not to buy drugs or anything, but I had a person at home, a girlfriend… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
Jackson doesn't bother to read the scripts anymore. He just checks to make sure he has one loud scene where he gets to shout,… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President. — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They need to… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
When the riots happened in L.A., they didn't go to Beverly Hills to trash Rodeo Drive. They trashed their own neighborhoods. It's one of… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
