Top 141 Quotes & Sayings by John Leguizamo
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Last updated on November 4, 2024.
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.
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.
Facebook I would've liked, but I made a huge mistake, and I made it a public page, and it didn't work out for me. I just put my name on it, and I didn't know how Facebook worked.
I always wanted my kids to be proud of their heritage.
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've always studied our empires to empower myself, you know, and to have ammunition against anybody who could try to put me down.
My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.
I was quiet a lot when I was picked on as a kid because I didn't have anything to say back.
Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.
I was always writing. I was writing in high school because it was a really competitive school for class clowns; I used to have to write all of my snaps and my disses the night before and then act like I was making it up the next day.
If everyone in your class has heroes, and they can relate to them in textbooks and literature, and then you don't see any of your heritage there, you feel less than. And I always wanted to be able to make Latin kids like myself feel more than.
We need a lot more positive Latin role models in movies and in television. They exist! It's not fiction.
Why is the world that I see around me mixed, and why is the world I see in movies filled with all white people? Why does it have to be like that?
You think you've done it all, and then you realize, 'No, there's so much more to do.'
I'd love to do some period pieces and some historic work; I just feel like no one's tapped into Latin history and Latin contributions to the making of America, and we've been there over 500 years.
Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk.
I love life, man, and I embrace every minute of it, so maybe I bring that on the set.
I feel American comedy is a little too light. World cinema, and Latin cinema, is much more comfortable with darker emotions.
I was growing up and maturing at a time where we were invisible, man. We were nowhere except negative. Any time you saw a Latin person in Hollywood or on TV, they were some sort of negative character.
I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They're not cutting edge.
Independent film is for actors that love to act.
Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.
My kids help fix my technology, but Twitter is my everything - I love Twitter.
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.
All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.
Rehearsals make a huge difference.
He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.
Work for work's sake doesn't thrill me, but when I'm in the zone, I'm creative, and the expression is free.
I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.
He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating.
To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.
Imagine if Lin-Manuel Miranda had tried to do 'Hamilton' first in Hollywood. They would have told him, 'The forefathers weren't Latino or black. They didn't speak in hip hop.' That would never had gotten going in Hollywood ever. But theater let Lin-Manuel him do it, and he created an incredible masterpiece.
I love the power of theater. I think it's an experience you never forget.
I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.
Working with Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch was incredible.
I love what I do. I would hate to give it up. But if I could, I would run for office in Texas. I would run someplace heinous to make a difference.
Chopin or Billy Eckstine or Miles Davis - that stuff helps me, more when I've already written and I need a little energy to keep editing.
I'm a very tough dad. I mean, I'm a fun dad, but I'm a tough dad.
Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.
The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.
In theater, you can be free. That's how Lin-Manuel Miranda got to do the most revolutionary piece of theater with 'Hamilton': color-blind casting in roles in which they would never cast Latinos if it were a film or TV show. It just goes to show that Hollywood and cable are way behind.
I've never really thought of myself as just an actor; I always thought of myself as aspiring to be an artist, and an artist has to take risks and put himself on the line.
I feel I don't get credit enough for it, the pioneering I did in comedy.
I have huge respect for whistle-blowers, people who stand up against their bosses and losing their careers, just for truth and justice.
We need to stand up and become a united front against a common enemy. It's important for us to not be divided.
I think I always have Woody Allen in mind whenever I'm creating anything. He's such a genius, and I think 'Annie Hall' is one of the greatest movies ever written.
I don't think it's my responsibility, but I definitely try to create my own projects that are Latin-based with a Latin crew and Latin cast. I try to give all my characters Latin names whenever I can and make sure that they are of Latin heritage. But that does not work with every project.
Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.
Self-expression is something that you've crafted, something that you've found. You've practiced on that piano for hours, you didn't hang out with your buddies, you didn't go after the girls, you stayed in your own little geeky room or you wrote for hours.
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 was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you just try this?" I said, "Alright, let me try it," and I started going to acting classes and I loved it. I thought, "I may not make it but I love doing it."
Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid.
I love life, and I embrace every minute of it.
With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.
It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.
America may not realize it yet, but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mambo kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inca princesses, every Hernandez and Fernandez, whom this country will one day come to understand and respect.
I like helping people achieve their dreams just like people helped me.
When you feel the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, "They were able to do it. They had hard times and a lot of opposition, but they got through it." Then you feel, "I can do it too."
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.
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