Quotes from John Leguizamo

I've never really thought of myself as just an actor; I always thought of myself as aspiring to be an artist, and an artist has to take risks and put himself on the line.

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

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.

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

With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.

Is there a God? Yeah, but there's not just one God. There's a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn't have possibly made so many mistakes all by Himself. This had to be done by committee.

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

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

Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They're not cutting edge.

I had a whole new respect for directors.

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.

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

Working with Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch was incredible.

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

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

My kids help fix my technology, but Twitter is my everything - I love Twitter.

Pablo Escobar is one of the great stories of all time. It's a bizarre, dark version of success.

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.

If everyone in your class has heroes, and they can relate to them in textbooks and literature, and then you don't see any of your heritage there, you feel less than. And I always wanted to be able to make Latin kids like myself feel more than.

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

I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh.

With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.