Quotes from John Leguizamo

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

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

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.

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

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

One year on Christmas Eve he told us that Santa wasn't giving out any presents because he was depressed and suicidal.

One afternoon I orchestrated a walkout, and maybe twenty of us took the subway up to Times Square, which was still the Pit of All Sins in those days. It wasn't Disneyfied yet, it was more like this really twisted alternate-universe Disneyland for hookers, strippers, dope addicts, and assorted perverts of every disgusting type. It was like a little strip of Hell right in the middle of Manhattan, unbelievably scuzzy and depraved. Yeah baby.

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

I think I always have Woody Allen in mind whenever I'm creating anything. He's such a genius, and I think 'Annie Hall' is one of the greatest movies ever written.

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.

You think you've done it all, and then you realize, 'No, there's so much more to do.'

I always wanted my kids to be proud of their heritage.

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.

Rehearsals make a huge difference.

I'd love to do some period pieces and some historic work; I just feel like no one's tapped into Latin history and Latin contributions to the making of America, and we've been there over 500 years.

Imagine if Lin-Manuel Miranda had tried to do 'Hamilton' first in Hollywood. They would have told him, 'The forefathers weren't Latino or black. They didn't speak in hip hop.' That would never had gotten going in Hollywood ever. But theater let Lin-Manuel him do it, and he created an incredible masterpiece.

The more times you do something, the more likely it is you're going to get it wrong.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

I love life, and I embrace every minute of it.

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

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

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

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.