top of page
Quote_1.png
Jimmy Smits

"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."

Standard 
 Customized
"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."

Exlpore more Acting quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Acting is happy agony."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?"

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core."

Explore more quotes by Jimmy Smits

Quote_1.png
Jimmy Smits
"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."
Quote_1.png
Jimmy Smits
"I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others."
Quote_1.png
Jimmy Smits
"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."
Quote_1.png
Jimmy Smits
"I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much."
Quote_1.png
Jimmy Smits
"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."
Quote_1.png
Jimmy Smits
"If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?"
Quote_1.png
Jimmy Smits
"I like the gypsy aspect of this business."
Quote_1.png
Jimmy Smits
"Celebrity hits like a bomb."
Quote_1.png
Jimmy Smits
"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."
Quote_1.png
Jimmy Smits
"I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment."
bottom of page