Jimmy Smits Quotes
How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?
Quotes to Explore
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.
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At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem.
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
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I've been very selective in what I did and didn't do.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.
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I'm not the biggest motorcycle fan - they're cool and a lot of fun, but they're scary as well!
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In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.
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I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.
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Life is priceless even to an ant.
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In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!
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I'm not a big watcher of myself. You start looking at things you shouldn't be looking at that have nothing to do with anything of importance.
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I will always try to be happy. I don’t think people really understand the value of happiness until they know what it’s like to be in that very, very dark place. It’s not romantic. Not even a little.
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How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?
