6 John Leguizamo Quotes on Identity

John Leguizamo quotes on identity

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.

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.

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.

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,