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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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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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 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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No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
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Eigene Meinungen. - Die erste Meinung, welche uns einfällt, wenn wir plötzlich über eine Sache befragt werden, ist gewöhnlich nicht unsere eigene, sondern nur die landläufige, unserer Kaste, Stellung, Abkunft zugehörige; die eigenen Meinungen schwimmen selten oben auf.
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It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel - past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment.
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?
