When I sit down and sign up for something, I vet where the people are coming from. — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
Media images are so important to young people feeling positive about themselves. — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
My life hasn't changed that much. Sure, people recognize me, and airports can get tough, but the people who stop me tend… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
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… — 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… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
We tend to think of World War II and all the atrocities that happened, and people say, 'Never again.' But these things… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
I'm always sitting down and talking to people that are doing independent features. It depends on the project and the quotient of… — 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… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
I have been in rooms with people arguing over a character that's not really fleshed out: that, just because the surname is… — 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
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