A biography for John Leguizamohasn’t been written yet.
“I love life, man, and I embrace every minute of it, so maybe I bring that on the set.”
“The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.”
“I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.”
“I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.”
“I was quiet a lot when I was picked on as a kid because I didn't have anything to say back.”
“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.”
“In theater, you can be free. That's how Lin-Manuel Miranda got to do the most revolutionary piece of theater with 'Hamilton': color-blind casting in roles in which they would never cast Latinos if it were a film or TV show. It just goes to show that Hollywood and cable are way behind.”
“My kids help fix my technology, but Twitter is my everything - I love Twitter.”
“I love the power of theater. I think it's an experience you never forget.”
“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.”
“Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.”
“I was growing up and maturing at a time where we were invisible, man. We were nowhere except negative. Any time you saw a Latin person in Hollywood or on TV, they were some sort of negative character.”
“Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They're not cutting edge.”
“I've always studied our empires to empower myself, you know, and to have ammunition against anybody who could try to put me down.”
“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.”
“Independent film is for actors that love to act.”
“I'm a very tough dad. I mean, I'm a fun dad, but I'm a tough dad.”
“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.”
“All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.”