Jimmy Smits Quotes
It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
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When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me.
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I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.
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Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.
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It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
