Jimmy Smits Quotes

I actually read 'Wonder Woman,' and here's the thing about her: she's more of a physical presence than anything else. You don't get to really know her on the inside.

I am a pretty tough nut, I guess, and I love art as one of the expressions that probably appeals to my softer side that a lot of people would deny I had.

I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

There's nothing wrong with the feminine, there's nothing wrong with being vulnerable.

All of the Marvel characters have flaws to them; all of them have a deep humanity to them.

More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.

What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.

That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea.

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.

I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.

Zoe Saldana is such an angel. She’s got such an openness and vulnerability on camera and yet such great strength. She can kick ass with the best of them, but then she can soften and open up in a way that is magnetizing whether you’re watching her on set or on screen – she’s got a real power to her. I love her; we’ve known each other for years and it’s great to come back to that kind of familiarity, especially when you’re working with such intimacy.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

Love me?” Madeline asked with a faint smile. “It used to be love.” He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. “Now there's no word for it.” “You once told me that you thought love was a weakness.” “I was wrong,” he whispered, kissing the corners of her mouth. “I've discovered it's my only strength.

The ones I love most are the people who the flaws show. I like doing characters that we see the total person. If people get afraid to show the flaws because they think, "Oh, then nobody will like them," then you end up with a lot of products, and everybody wants to be frigging heroic all the time - not what people are trapped in every day, like your skirt being in your panties after you walk out of the bathroom. Being human. Sometimes when people are drawn to your work, they're drawn because they recognize themselves or their loved ones or their neighbor in it.

The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.

Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on