M. Jackson Quotes

I'm not railing, 'This is inadequate' or 'This isn't right.' Just show me what will work.

You have to be unique.

I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.

The best thing that I think happened to me was I got the opportunity to have really good players and we were able to meet the demand of the competition. And I think that's what I value most.

My accountant tells me I can't be a California resident anymore. I spend too much of my time in New York.

Not everyone has a purpose.

I expect a cigar.....not lit, hopefully

Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.

It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read the script and thought it was brilliant.

There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.

I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

As the show [Dracula] goes on,Jonathan Harker gets darker and darker, and further into that side of it all. All of the worlds end up colliding and meshing together.

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.

I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.

We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get.

Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.

Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.

Nowadays, everything is so gratuitous. The violence is suggested, and it's much more impactful than showing everything.

Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.

You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.

If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.

You never know what the future brings.

There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.

When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

If it's music, I love it.

It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

I always wanted to be a leading man!

I believe that you should move and eat right.

I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

I think any show after the Super Bowl will have huge numbers.

The public always picks quality.

Before you do anything, whatever it is, figure out who you are first.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

Home run hitters strike out a lot.

There's a manager (Billy Martin) I could play for.

The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.