Jimmy Smits Quotes

#1. Well, when I came to Hollywood, there were three names really of Latin actors, three or four names, maybe five. There was Raul Julia, Edward James Olmos, Andy Garcia, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Smits. Now there's a lot.

Benicio Del Toro

#2. Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!

Roger Ebert

#3. When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system.

Jimmy Smits

#4. There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.

Jimmy Smits

#5. To know the life principles of the kingdom is to humbly seek them

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.

Jimmy Smits

#7. If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?

Jimmy Smits

#8. Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.

Brian Tracy

#9. Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics.

Kent Beck

#10. 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.

Jimmy Smits

#11. For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

Jimmy Smits

#12. Celebrity hits like a bomb.

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#13. I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.

Jimmy Smits

#14. Hey, Connor! Sorry I must have butt-dialed you. So, do you want to tell me how it felt being on my ass?" she laughed.

Ellery Black's BFF and her jokes.

Sandi Lynn

#15. There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!

Jimmy Smits

#16. 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.

Jimmy Smits

#17. 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.

Jimmy Smits

#18. You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

Jimmy Smits

#19. She wanted to read and talk and laugh and watch television and listen to the radio. She wanted to watch the world around her go by, and make up stories in her head about everything she saw...Like a princess in a carriage, surveying her kingdom, preferably one with a magical forest.

Jami Attenberg

#20. I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

Jimmy Smits

#21. I like the gypsy aspect of this business.

Jimmy Smits

#22. I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.

Jimmy Smits

#23. Tis the moment where a decision is set to alter the course of her destiny. She walks toward the light where he patiently awaits her arrival.

Truth Devour

#24. You have to be like a sponge and use what you can and how it relates because TV is fluid. Things change on a week-to-week basis. Those are the things that I do with every character. If I'm involved in a boxing movie, I go see fights and learn about boxing. It's part of what we do.

Jimmy Smits

#25. I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

Jimmy Smits

#26. My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose wasn't flawed) is being heard by Australian women and girls loud and clear. And the message is: 'Don't aspire to high office,sweetheart, because we'll flay you alive.'

Jane Caro

#27. In every society, the rich are the scum of the earth.

G.K. Chesterton