Jimmy Smits Quotes
How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?
Quotes to Explore
-
There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
-
I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
-
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
-
I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
-
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.
-
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
-
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.
-
With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.
-
At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem.
-
This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
-
Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
-
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.
-
I'm not the biggest motorcycle fan - they're cool and a lot of fun, but they're scary as well!
-
In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.
-
I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.
-
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
-
The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.
-
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
-
You must not misunderstand what the Lord meant when Adam was told he was to have a helpmeet. A helpmeet is a companion suited to or equal to us. We walk side by side with a helpmeet, not one before or behind the other. A helpmeet results in an absolute equal partnership between a husband and a wife. Eve was to be equal to Adam as a husband and wife are to be equal to each other.
-
Pop music is probably the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the general public. The more people buy a record, the more successful it is - not only commercially but artistically.
-
The last thing we want to do is disappoint the fans.
-
The entrepreneurial heroes of the Valley are accessible to many people.
-
How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?
