It's great to be able to play the bad guy role because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why. How does a person get to that particular point? It's those little cogs in… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
People don't walk around thinking of themselves as bad people. You're part of the environment that you grow up in, and there can be decency in that. I always try to find a little glimmer of that, in anything that… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
Growing up in New York, we lived all around the city depending on our economic circumstance. I also lived in Puerto Rico for a… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
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… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
People become actors because they want to hide, and it's not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
What struck me more than anything is how the people that are involved in government start out from a place of really wanting to… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
As an actor, you think to yourself, 'I want to do good work,' but you also want the work that you do to make… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
I have no tattoos at all - it was a huge undertaking for me in the '80s to let my parents know I was… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
It just makes you feel proud, more than anything else, that the work has in some way transcended itself. — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
The most obvious thing that comes to mind is the loss of one's privacy. Your life becomes an open book, but I've found ways… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
Michael C. Hall is an incredibly detailed actor who can convey so much with just an eyebrow. — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
The Fourth of July concert is invigorating in so many ways, in terms of what it feels like to be an American. — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
You have to be like a sponge and use what you can and how it relates because TV is fluid. Things change on a… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
