VIDEO: Samuel L. Jackson Reflects on His Career and Early Days in the Theatre on 60 MINUTES

Samuel L. Jackson is a household name, known for his iconic roles on screen. He recently appeared in a feature on 60 Minutes, where he talked about his long career, including how getting his start in the theatre shaped him as an actor.

Jackson met his wife, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, who is now starring in To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway, while he was in college.

"Oh God, oh God. It's a ride. It's been a ride," said LaTanya on being married to Jackson. "It's fun. It's sad. It's happy. It's creative. It's a conversation."

The pair spent 15 years in the New York stage acting scene, among other black actors who were then struggling, including Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Laurence Fisburne, and Wesley Snipes.

Jackson said that his theatre roots shaped him as an actor, and taught him to focus on what the audience wants to see.

"That's what I was taught when I was doing theater," he said. "That, when you come on stage, you want to light it up to the point that, when you leave, people want to go with you. And I hope that's who I am when I show up."

Read more, and watch the full video feature, on CBS.

Samuel L. Jackson's Broadway credits include The Mountaintop and The Piano Lesson. Off-Broadway he has appeared in Burner's Frolic, Prince, Sally, District Line, A Soldier's Play, Home, and Mother Courage & Her Children.

Jackson rose to fame in the early 1990s with films such as Goodfellas (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Patriot Games (1992), Amos & Andrew (1993), True Romance (1993), Jurassic Park (1993) and his collaborations with director Quentin Tarantino including Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Django Unchained (2012), and The Hateful Eight (2015).

Jackson has appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), A Time to Kill (1996), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), The Negotiator (1998), Deep Blue Sea (1998), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Snakes on a Plane (2006), Kong: Skull Island (2017) and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005).

His likeness was used for the Ultimate version of the Marvel Comics character Nick Fury. He has also played Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Avengers (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Avengers: Infinity War (2018), as well as the TV show Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

Jackson has provided his voice to several animated films, television series and video games, including the roles of Lucius Best / Frozone in Pixar Animation Studios' films The Incredibles (2004) and Incredibles 2 (2018), Mace Windu in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), Afro Samurai in the anime television series Afro Samurai (2007), and Frank Tenpenny in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004).