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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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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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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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 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.
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The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.
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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.
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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
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In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.
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People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
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The Olympic games are already there and we don't have even half of what you need to train well.
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I have more control of the material if I produce. I can be much more active in choosing the writer, shaping the script, casting and editing the film.
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Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
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How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?
