Jimmy Smits Quotes

I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.

Jimmy Smits

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 9, 1955

Topics

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I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk.

John Gilpin

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You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

Maude Adams

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It doesn't take a bruise or a broken bone for a child to be a victim of domestic violence. Kids who witness domestic violence are victims, too.

Amy Klobuchar

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I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.

Stephen Chow

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I think it's possible to have a vision for your life that goes beyond any circumstance of anything that you've ever seen, and I encourage people to do that. But I don't think that any of us can do that in a vacuum.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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I could give up my phone any day. I don't need it.

Millie Bobby Brown

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Love as intense as ice, love as remote as blackness.

Liu Xiaobo

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A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

Jose Bergamin

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I've found that it's easier to stay in shape than it is to get into shape.

Derek Jeter

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People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don't know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.

Dean Ornish

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I write my columns pretty carefully.

Bret Stephens

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There are no coal plants on the drawing board for Duke, which leaves us with gas, renewables, and nuclear.

Lynn Good

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