Jimmy Smits Quotes
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I work out, but I'm not doing it specifically because I show my butt on TV.
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Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one on TV - and you can't discount how great it is when they tell me I was the first.
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I think education was the key for me, and that's what I tell kids. That base in the classics gave me something to springboard from, which I wouldn't have had if I'd come out to Los Angeles early and been guest punk of the week on 'Hill Street Blues.'
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When you're 27 million strong, no one can tell you that you don't belong or expect you to just move along.
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What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.
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I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.
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I can't get into talking about why another actor left. It has nothing to do with me.
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At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.
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I almost feel like sometimes when I'm on location, you miss your home and your family and all that stuff, but it keeps you focused on the work.
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I've had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.
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There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.
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I have and will continue to vigorously pursue opportunities in all mediums.
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I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me.
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Everything in moderation, like calories.
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I left 'L.A. Law' after five years when my contract was up because I felt I had done all I could do with the character. I didn't walk off the show with a three-picture deal to pursue this wonderful film career.
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I save the rage for the stage.
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I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.
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Education is the key in so many ways.
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We tend to think of World War II and all the atrocities that happened, and people say, 'Never again.' But these things are still happening. The Amnesty International files are big.
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We're at a point right now in our development in this country - setting the immigration issue aside - that you can't ignore the sheer population of us in metropolitan areas all across the country, of how significant Latino-ness is in the United States.
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Doing a truncated series is like doing a long movie, which allows for a certain artistic freedom. After just 12 episodes, you can take a breather and do other things for your career.
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How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?
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An actor tries to be versatile, to immerse himself in a different culture.
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I'm not going to leave one of the best shows to do another TV show.