John Leguizamo Quotes

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

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.

I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.

Well, I don't know why people insist on knowing themselves. It's hard enough to know what to wear.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The New York Times made you or broke you.

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

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.

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

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

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

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.

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 life, and I embrace every minute of it.

I knew Linda Cardellini from when we did ER together - she was always great, such a cool spirit.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

Rehearsals make a huge difference.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.