John Leguizamo Quotes

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

Is there a God? Yeah, but there's not just one God. There's a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn't have possibly made so many mistakes all by Himself. This had to be done by committee.

I love life, and I embrace every minute of it.

You know, I am kind of a bi-polarish schitzerphrenic. I run the gamut of being incredibly shy and withdrawn to being a crazy-eccentric exhibitionist. And I have always been like that.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

Pablo Escobar is one of the great stories of all time. It's a bizarre, dark version of success.

I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.

People can be anonymous when they go on blogs and say crazy things that they would never have the courage to say to your face.

Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.

You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.

I did the bible as told through Hispanic people and they laughed and applauded. I thought, "Oh my god, this is what I want to do for the rest of my life."

There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.

I had a whole new respect for directors.

Tennessee Williams, one of my favorite playwrights, [lived] down there. You always heard about the Keys and how amazing they are and, well, it's like a highway with some bars on it.

I love cartoons. So when they came to me to make Ice Age and this sequel, I was so happy.

In Moulin Rouge I could not change the name of Toulouse-Lautrec obviously to Toulouse-Lautrec- Martinez. But in ER I did that, my name is Dr Victor Clemente, so sometimes it is possible.

I wanted to enjoy the process. I wanted to enjoy just being on stage and giving back and the feedback.

I'm just more comfortable with people who are like me than the people who are not.

You can't really walk anywhere. Where are you going to go? Everything closes at a certain hour and it's a highway with bars on it; that's what it is.

Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.

I love life, man, and I embrace every minute of it so maybe I bring that on the set. I love people and I want to have a good time.

Some kids are fine, but often I don't like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing an interest, so I have to try to discourage them, squash that in them.

[Brad Furman] wants to try stuff, he's willing to try stuff. And he wants electricity on the camera. And that's what I want, I want electricity whenever I'm performing.

First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major.

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

Don't confuse the beginning of my world with the breakup of yours.

You just want to go off and be intuitive and wild, and that's what Bryan Cranston brings to the game.

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

Rehearsals make a huge difference.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

The difficulty of being a Latin kid, a Latin man in this country [U.S].

I like helping people achieve their dreams just like people helped me.

I love theater. I think theater, when its done right, is the best, like a religious experience. When it is done badly, it's the worst thing. It's just an incredible experience.

That's the happiest I am, when I'm doing great work.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

It's not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience. The difference is that making a live action movie you are using your whole body.

I did Brad's first film The Take and I'm glad Brad [Furman] has not calmed down. I don't want him to ever calm down.

I was just school class clown and that was it. Someday I'll get a job as a cab driver or whatever.

The New York Times made you or broke you.

I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life.