Samuel L. Jackson: From Stutterer to Superstar

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No one does it on their own. This is how Samuel L. Jackson went from stutterer to superstar

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00:28 She forced me to do a lot of things

00:30 that I didn't want to do when I was a kid.

00:32 But one of the things she made me do was read.

00:34 So I was reading by the time I was like two.

00:37 My grandmother worked.

00:38 She was a domestic.

00:39 She was like the help.

00:40 And my grandfather worked at a hotel during the day.

00:43 So she took me to school with her.

00:44 So when I was two, I sat in the back of her room.

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01:59 My best friend from high school and college

02:17 was a drug counselor in Knoxville.

02:19 So my wife called him.

02:21 And they found a bed for me upstate New York

02:24 the very next morning, and I was in rehab the very next day.

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02:30 I started jungle fever.

02:35 I was two weeks out of rehab.

02:37 So I really didn't need makeup.

02:40 And I was still detoxing.

02:42 So the person that you see on screen was who I was.

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03:20 Fortunately, Hollywood found me at the time

03:26 I needed to be found when I finally got my life together.

03:31 And I got some people around me that helped

03:34 me make that dream come true.

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