Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson

Amazingly, actor Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson just celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary! That’s pretty incredible for Hollywood. These college sweethearts met in 1970 and never looked at anyone else! Jackson recently opened up about how Richardson has always encouraged him to be a better actor and a better person.

“I’ve always had my wife LaTanya, who’s my harshest critic. She’d say, ‘You’re so intelligent that the first time you read something, you think you understand it intellectually and emotionally … But there’s no blood in it.’ It wasn’t until I got sober that I knew fully what she meant,” Jackson said. “Once I was able to ignore that, and focus on the relationships with the people I was onstage with, I was finally able to blossom into whatever I might think I am now.”