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When people want me to sign an autograph in a restaurant, and I'm eating. I don't even have to say no, I just kind of stop and look at them ... "Oh, okay. I'll ... I'll come back."

"Samuel L. Jackson is a big nerd, and other revelations from 'The Man'". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. September 08, 2005.

Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.

"Sam Rises to the Occasion as Lazarus". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.384

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.317

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1834). “Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poems”, p.342

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.369

I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.

Samuel Beckett (2007). “More Pricks Than Kicks”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

Nobody wants to have things blurted at them.

Interview with Catherine O’Hara, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.