-Happy birthday. -Thank you.
-70? Is that real? -Yeah.
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-Wow! Wow! That's amazing.
-Thank you, Quest, for spinning for us that night.
-Did he really? -He set it off!
-Dude, he's the greatest. -Man.
I was, like, trying to eat, and I looked up,
and I was like,
"People are partying already. What's happening?"
I was just getting ready to eat, and the next thing I know,
Judge Judy was pulling me up out of my chair like,
"Come on. Let's dance."
-Yeah. Dude. I read that somewhere.
-So I hit the floor. Me and Judge Judy hit it for a minute.
-How do you know Judge Judy?
-My agent and Judge Judy are very good friends,
so early on, when I started going to Toni's house,
Judge Judy would be at her house,
and we would hang out in the backyard.
I was smoking then. She smoked.
So we'd smoke in the backyard and hang out and talk.
-Wow!
-And then we started going to dinner together
and just kind of hanging out.
I'd fly with her cross-country and do that.
And then she quit smoking, and she wanted me to quit,
so she sent me to her doctor who used truth serum.
'Cause Judy used to like --
She said she actually
used to wake up in the middle of the night to smoke.
-Really? -She would wake up,
go have a cigarette, and go back to bed.
So that's when she knew it was time to quit.
-So a hypnotist? -Truth serum. Yes.
I'm not real sure what happened, but the doctor told me --
He said, "You have very strong will."
-Yeah, yeah. And you did it. You quit smoking.
Good for you, buddy. That's great.
-Yeah. That's great. -That's great.
I know you did the party
in Cipriani here in New York City because --
-My wife's working in New York.
She's on Broadway in "A Time to Kill."
I mean, no. She's on Broadway. "To Kill a Mockingbird."
-"To Kill a Mockingbird." I'll let you do that again.
No, I'll let you do it again.
"Oops! Sorry, honey!"
-Yeah, um, yeah. She had the party here. She put it together.
Because she's on Broadway
working in "To Kill a Mockingbird."
-She's getting rave reviews. -She is. She's killing it.
-It's her and Jeff Daniels. -Jeff Daniels.
-I know Jeff. I got to go check that play out.
-A lot of people. It's great. -That's fantastic.
-It's, like, the most popular drama on Broadway.
It's sold out in huge advance. -Check it out.
How long have you guys been married?
How long have you been together?
-Married, 38 years. Together, 48.
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-That's great. That's great.
She's seen a lot of different Samuel L. Jacksons.
-She has. She has. She knew the broke one.
-[ Laughs ] She knew the broke one. Yeah.
Do you have any, like, favorite performances?
Can I play a game with you? -Yeah, sure.
-Samuel L. Jackson breaks down
the top five characters played by Samuel L. Jackson.
-Five? That's all? -Yeah.
-"That's all?" [ Laughs ]
-Wow. Five out of 120.
Well, no, not out of 120. It's only maybe 100.
Um, let's see, number 5. Um...
Wow!
Um...
Nick Fury.
-Yeah. -Yeah. Nick Fury.
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I love that. -Number five, Nick Fury.
Um, number four. Um...
Can I combine, like, a couple guys?
-Yeah, maybe.
-Number five would be Ordell, Jules...
and Stephen From "Django,"
because they're all Quentin characters.
-Oh, I see.
-And they're all, like, cool characters
that have their own thing going for them,
and I'd hate to pull them apart.
-Oh, I understand. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jules. I mean, come on. Oh, my gosh.
-Yeah, I mean, Jules is like -- -I can't even talk about it.
-Yeah, 'cause it's one of those things that every week,
somebody wants to know if I know what a quarter pounder with cheese...
-[ Laughs ] Do you have an answer for it yet or no?
-Sometimes I just say no
because that's the way the scene went in the movie.
I always want to see how well they know the movie.
"You know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in France?"
I go, "No. What?"
And then some people go, "Royale with cheese."
Or they go, "Come on. You know."
And I say, "You don't know the movie."
But I've had about four people actually continue,
and we actually do the scene together.
-No way. -It's awesome.
So, next character after that. Um...
-That's four. -Mace Windu.
-Oh, dude. "Star Wars." You were in "Star Wars."
-A Jedi. -You're a Jedi. Exactly.
-Come on. He's a Jedi. You can't beat that.
And my favorite is --
It's this kind of wacky, kind of private-detective,
kind of crazy dude,
Mitch Henessey from "Long Kiss Goodnight."
-Really? -Love that movie, man.
-Really?
-Oh, I had such a good time with Geena Davis.
And Mitch is like --
Mitch is like this dude that just kind of sucks it up
and kind of steps in there and takes on for her.
I actually died in that movie.
So, when they were testing it, they'd kill me.
And I'm in the car, and I'm dying. It's a big, sad scene.
The audience was like, "Oh, hell no."
-[ Laughs ] You can't die in a movie.