Jimmy Smits Quotes
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I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.
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All my Latino side is from the Bronx.
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The Fourth of July concert is invigorating in so many ways, in terms of what it feels like to be an American.
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Variety is the thing for me to be able to work in theater and be involved in more films and TV movies that say something.
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I grew up in New York City, and I've got wonderful memories of the Fourth of July fireworks.
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When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.
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I'm happy that just about on every other show there's a Latino somewhere present, and we're not all the cooks anymore.
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It just makes you feel proud, more than anything else, that the work has in some way transcended itself.
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'West Wing' was a show about politics.
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Women think the people that I play are smoldering and dangerous. I look in the mirror, and I go, 'I don't get it.'
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If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?
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As an actor, I just want to keep mixing it up.
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As an actor and as a performer, I've felt that the education system has really helped me in a lot of ways... there was always a teacher or a professor along the way that kept pushing me to the next stage.
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The friendships I made on 'L.A. Law,' with the cast and Steven Bochco and David Kelley were really wonderful.
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What we need to focus on is not that we're not nominated, but that we have many more Latinos that are in prominent positions on shows all across the dial than ever before.
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There just aren't enough positive portrayals of Latino life in film.
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I couldn't see myself doing a traditional sitcom.