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.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Different
  • Choose
  • Lots

• I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Home
  • Play
  • Present

• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• 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.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • Choice
  • Pizza

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • 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.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Want
  • Characters
  • Watch

• With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • You
  • Rejection
  • Take

• At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem.

  

  Iman
  • Day
  • End
  • Self-Esteem

• I've been very selective in what I did and didn't do.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Very
  • Did
  • Selective

• This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Moment
  • Internet

• Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Better

• 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.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • College
  • City
  • Day

• I'm not the biggest motorcycle fan - they're cool and a lot of fun, but they're scary as well!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fun
  • Cool
  • Scary

• In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Small
  • Poetry
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • History
  • Creative
  • Realize

• I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Kids
  • Kind
  • Play

• I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years...

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People

• But my favorite work is always my next piece.

  

  Joey Skaggs
  • Work

• It's funny how human nature works. You get a big guy back, and suddenly you think that the goals are just going to come.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Goals
  • Works
  • Human Nature

• With 'Harry Potter,' I've been all over the world. I probably wouldn't have gone to New York so young if it weren't for the films.

  

  Emma Watson
  • World

• How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?

  

  Jimmy Smits