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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I'm socially awkward in life, and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do. I'm more about interpreting other people's words.
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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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I grew up in New York City, and I've got wonderful memories of the Fourth of July fireworks.
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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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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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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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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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When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.
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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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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.