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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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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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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I've said before that the Ryder Cup is not the European Tour versus the American Tour. It's Europe's best golfers against the US.
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Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be of absorbing interest to scientists. Almost all things scientists think and dream about are mysterious.
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We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star.
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America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.
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This actress named Lisa Eilbacher. I was up for the part in Shampoo and friends of mine kept telling me she was going around saying all these bad things about me. It's like we're still in the sixth grade sometimes.
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How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?
