10 Badass Samuel L. Jackson Movie Quotes

3. A Time To Kill (1996)

"Yes, they deserve to die, and I hope they burn in hell!"

John Grisham adaptations were all the rage in Hollywood during the mid-90s, and Joel Schumacher's star-studded adaptation was both a critical and commercial success. Despite boasting the talents of Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Ashley Judd and Donald and Kiefer Sutherland, it was Samuel L Jackson who gave the movie's best performance as vengeful father Carl Lee Hailey.

After his daughter is violently assaulted and left for dead, Hailey takes the law into his own hands and guns down the attackers in the local courthouse. The majority of the narrative surrounds his trial for the revenge killing, and it remains one of the best courtroom dramas in a decade chock-full of them. This memorable outburst comes as Kevin Spacey's district attorney ruthlessly interrogates Jackson's Carl Lee, and it became the defining moment of the entire movie, as well as one of the actor's most-quoted lines.

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