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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