36 John Leguizamo Quotes

John Leguizamo quotes

1. 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.

2. We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation.

3. 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.

4. He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, ... I went like all pale. I felt all the blood leave my body. And then my father was like, 'How dare you?' And he stormed out of the theater and I followed him and we fought and argued and hugged and he cried and we made up.

5. 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.

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

7. Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.

8. 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.

9. He made the characters a lot more three-dimensional. It's still a 'B' movie and it's still kinda campy. Now it's these really well-developed characters, really three-dimensional.

10. He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating.

11. He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.

12. 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.

13. There was no point. It's already done. Let's leave that alone. I mean, if you're not going to come there with something new, then just leave it alone.

14. 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.

15. My parents talked to me in Spanish and I answered in English.

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

17. I've been bouncing off the walls since childhood. Expelled from school. In trouble. Kid with no future. Comedy was the only answer.

18. It's always the same thing that drives me -- a type of character or personality that I've never done before, or that allows me to try out some new acting technique. So I'm always experimenting and looking for that interesting hook.

19. If I was in Hollywood and I got bitten by a zombie, I would want to stay a zombie and then take down as many people as I could,

20. But if I'm out here, let me be. I want to bite as many people as I can. Bite them back, so to speak.

1. 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.

2. I read that 36% of Latin kids drop out of high school, and we're the most bullied minority in schools right now. And my son had troubles in elementary school. So that made me really question being Latin in the United States.

3. I was quiet a lot when I was picked on as a kid because I didn't have anything to say back.

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

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

6. I feel American comedy is a little too light. World cinema, and Latin cinema, is much more comfortable with darker emotions.

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

11. I love the power of theater. I think it's an experience you never forget.

12. t is for me because I needed to do this. I really think actors shouldn't act unless they really need it in their lives. I think it has to be something that is so much a part of your chemistry, such a passion, that you can't live without it. You should not do it just because you are seeking fame or want to get rich.

13. I feel I don't get credit enough for it, the pioneering I did in comedy.

14. 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?

15. It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.

16. I had to get the voice back, the precise pitch of Sid's voice and I'd forgotten that I'd pitched him higher than my regular voice, so that was a little difficult to begin with. It was especially hard because we started recording in the morning so I had to warm up a lot and my usual voice is a little more gravelly.