I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor.
The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.
Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.
Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.
I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.
I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.
In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
Coming from West Texas at the time that I did, I didn't know you could be an actor. It didn't seem like something that actually happened.
Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.