I don’t know who I feel sorrier for on press tours, the actors, who have to answer the same boring questions a thousand times, or the entertainment reporters, who don’t feel like they’ve done their jobs unless they ask the same boring questions that have already been asked a thousand times. Okay, that’s a lie, I definitely feel worse for the actors, but only because entertainment reporters all seem like such tumbling, tumbling dickweeds. Proving why he’s a national treasure, Samuel L. Jackson had a novel response to Fox Houston’s Jake Hamilton when asked about 
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He was actually talking about Jackie Brown there, but who could tell? Anyway, Jackson refused to answer Hamilton’s question until Hamilton actually said the word “n**ger,” not the sanitized “the n-word.” Transcript follows, video below.
HAMILTON: There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the use of the N-Word in this movie and-
JACKSON: No, nobody, none- The word would be…?
HAMILTON: (*sigh*) Oh, I can’t say it.
JACKSON: Why not?
HAMILTON: I don’t like to say it.
JACKSON: Have you ever said it?
HAMILTON: No, sir.
JACKSON: Try it.
HAMILTON: I don’t like to say it.
JACKSON: TRY IT.
HAMILTON: Really? Seriously?
JACKSON: We’re not gonna have this conversation unless you say it.
HAMILTON: …
