Happy Birthday actor Jimmy Smits

Born: July 9, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

QUOTES:

Celebrity hits like a bomb. So you have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what’s happening around you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

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.

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