John Leguizamo

“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.”

“We need a lot more positive Latin role models in movies and in television. They exist! It's not fiction.”

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

“Working with Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch was incredible.”

“Rehearsals make a huge difference.”

“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.”

“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.”