Jimmy Smits Quotes

You can't get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it's just the icing on the cake.

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Peace
  • Religion
  • Harmony

• I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Small
  • Movies

• I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • American
  • Think
  • Support

• I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Want
  • You
  • Fans

• Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Church

• I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Trying
  • Fear
  • Conquer

• I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Time
  • Me
  • Experiences

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Think
  • Me
  • Piano

• I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Thought
  • Sweet

• I want to be treated like a musician.

  

  Halsey
  • Want
  • Like
  • Musician

• I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Star

• If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

  

  Rick James
  • Peace

• 'We need a guy who plays dodge ball and thinks he's a pirate - get me Alan Tudyk on the phone!' Those are the jobs I do.

  

  Alan Tudyk
  • Guy
  • Pirate

• Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Red
  • New
  • Modesty

• When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious constitutional issue of electing someone whose father was not a U.S. citizen.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Father
  • Serious
  • Meaningful

• Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

  

  George Washington
  • Serious
  • Manners
  • Graves

• You can't get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it's just the icing on the cake.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Serious