Jimmy Smits Quotes
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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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As an actor, I just want to keep mixing it up.
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I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.
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It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
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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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In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
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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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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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'West Wing' was a show about politics.
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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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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's a lot of successful procedural shows that are out there. A lot of them are very successful. I just know there's an audience out there that wants character also.
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There just aren't enough positive portrayals of Latino life in film.
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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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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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I couldn't see myself doing a traditional sitcom.