10 Badass Samuel L. Jackson Movie Quotes

9. Deep Blue Sea (1999)

"You think water moves fast? You should see ice. It moves like it has a mind. Like it knows it killed the world once and got a taste for murder. After the avalanche, it took us a week to climb out. Now we took an oath, that I'm breaking now. We said we'd say it was the snow that killed the other two, but it wasn't. Nature is lethal but it doesn't hold a candle to man."

Renny Harlin's unashamed B-movie is a true guilty pleasure and despite the ridiculousness of the central premise Samuel L Jackson still manages to lend a sense of gravitas to the proceedings as corporate executive Russell Franklin, as well as delivering one of the most memorable monologues of his entire career. Only Sam Jackson could recite these lines with such conviction. Who else could turn ham-fisted dialogue about sentient ice, allusions to murder and possibly even cannibalism into such an intensely straight-faced monologue, before then proceeding to be eaten by a great white shark, all while wearing an unflattering wetsuit? Sam Jackson, that's who.
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