Jimmy Smits
Jimmy Smits
Jimmy Smitsis an American actor. He played attorney Victor Sifuentes on the 1980s legal drama L.A. Law, NYPD Detective Bobby Simone on the 1990s police drama NYPD Blue, and Matt Santos on the 1999-2006 serial political drama The West Wing. He also appeared as Bail Organa in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and ADA Miguel Prado in Dexter. In 2012, he joined the main cast of Sons of Anarchy as high-level pimp Nero Padilla...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth9 July 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Jimmy is not a good talker, ... prepare doubly hard.
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I am honored to call John Spencer a friend, and his death is a loss that will be felt for a long time to come. Working with him was a privilege.
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.
There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.
You have to be like a sponge and use what you can and how it relates because TV is fluid. Things change on a week-to-week basis. Those are the things that I do with every character. If I'm involved in a boxing movie, I go see fights and learn about boxing. It's part of what we do.
I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.
I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.
Celebrity hits like a bomb.
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 I do, because you can find places where there's humor or lightness in something that's deep and profound, and that tends to resonate more and make people more human. As an actor and performer, I think it resonates more with the audience when you do have the payoff.
You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.
Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.
If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?