Jimmy Smits Quotes
How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?
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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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The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.
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I don’t know what a star is. I never think about these things, because the more you think about them, the more your ears get used to them.
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When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed... Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.
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That's what interests me about film: directing.
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Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice.
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How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?
