John Leguizamo's Quotes

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

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

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.

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

Rehearsals make a huge difference.

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

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

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.

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.

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.