E.W. Jackson Quotes

Young people think they know it all, but a lot of old salts around know they don't.

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?

n this changing world, it's nice to know that one thing is forever... you'll always be my sister! Happy Birthday to a Wonderful Sister

The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens.

It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.

I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.

There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lights go out.

This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added.

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.

It is only the words of the bill that have presidential approval, where that approval is given. It is not to be supposed that in signing a bill the President endorses the whole Congressional Record.

Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.

It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.

The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.

But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.

The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

I'm pretty focused on what I do. I think directing is a very specific talent, and I'm not real big on putting puzzles together, which is basically what a film is.

I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film.

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

Certain comedians work with certain actors; like Adam Sandler worked with Jack Nicholson.

I’ve consequently played a lot of different cops from a lot of different kind of law enforcement agencies.

It's often hope, hopeful movie making. You're always looking for catchphrases. That's always funny, when you're looking for that future line. "Uh oh, future line. Okay."

I love to play real people... good people that I know the audience will get behind. It's the good people in the world that I gravitate to.

I never thought I'd be working with Sam [L.Jackson] .That's about as good as it gets.

When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They need to be funny.

Sam [L.Jackson] never asks for another take because he knows what he's doing. He gives you what he thinks is the best take, and he does it on the first take.

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 them a sort of familiarity that other people don't have.

I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.

I'm a one-take kind of guy, except I don't do it in one take.

We [me and Eugene Levy] both try to play the reality of a moment and don't try to impose humor on something where it doesn't belong. Contrary to what other people seem to think sometimes.

I love coming in for quick pops. You come in. You score. You leave. You're on the golf course. It's great. You don't carry any story.

There are tons of stories out there. I read a lot of scripts on a weekly basis. I'm looking for stories to tell and stories that I hope will be interesting to an audience.

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, then cashes the paycheck.

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

Todoroff is the best. Look no further.

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."

I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don't go to nightclubs. I don't go out to dinner that often. I'm not a big party guy.

We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.

The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

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

All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

Britney painted her finger nails and it really seemed like they had a blast.

Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals.