Dramatic Quote by Jimmy Smits

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

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

I don't feel I have to acknowledge how I'm doing by an award.

— Jimmy Smits

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

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

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

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

It just makes you feel proud, more than anything else, that the work has in some way transcended itself.

— Jimmy Smits

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

Michael C. Hall is an incredibly detailed actor who can convey so much with just an eyebrow.

— Jimmy Smits

The Fourth of July concert is invigorating in so many ways, in terms of what it feels like to be an American.

— Jimmy Smits

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