John Leguizamo Quotes (21 Quotes)

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.

My parents talked to me in Spanish and I answered in English,

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,

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.

There are just so many intellectual things with the script that aren't normal, ... breaking all the rules, and it still works.

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.

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.

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 mean it was my family but it wasn't, ... I wasn't saying this is my life. I was saying this is a fictitious dysfunctional Latin family, you know, so (family members) wouldn't get wind of it. But they caught on. They knew it was them in disguise.

a ton of research -- more than I've ever done before for anything. I've hit this point in my career where I just love doing research. It's what feeds me -- going and living the life of my character -- so for this I went to Ecuador a month or two ahead to work on my Spanish and get the feel for the place. I also traveled around with this local TV reporter who was doing the same thing Manolo does, and every morning we'd go to the morgue to cover murders.

Land of the Dead.

It's a really confined space, and you can't sway your head or swing your arms or tip your head back or any of that, or else you'll completely screw up the recording.

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

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

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

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

Guys who have tons of power, who're charming, but at the same time incredibly Machiavellian.

When you're that type of personality and come into any work environment,

I play kind of a genius doctor really bright and kind of self-serving, ... I'm bringing in a lot of gadgets.

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

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.