John Leguizamo Quotes

It doesn’t make sense. [Republicans are] not for us. You’re not for my values. We’re working class people mostly and blue collar. We’re your cops, we’re your firemen, we’re your carpenters and the things we need – we need to protect our unions, we need to protect our Medicare, we need to protect the working class person.

Bryan Cranston has got such an incredible light touch. He comes in egoless, but with bold opinions, and he wants to play. He wants to play. And that’s what I’ve seen in great actors all my life and what I’ve always tried to nurture and keep in myself is that joy of playing.

Self-expression is something that you’ve crafted, something that you’ve found. You’ve practiced on that piano for hours, you didn’t hang out with your buddies, you didn’t go after the girls, you stayed in your own little geeky room or you wrote for hours.

You can’t really walk anywhere. Where are you going to go? Everything closes at a certain hour and it’s a highway with bars on it; that’s what it is.

It’s been great, I have to dig deep for really raw emotions and at the same time I have to use my intellect to say the ridiculous medical jargon while acting and treating a patient and then I have to try to have a personality and emotions as well. So it is definitely hard work.

I did an HBO movie called Undefeated that I directed. It was too hard.

I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.

I keep my kids out of the whole business entirely. Allegra and Lucas are five and six and I’m not interested in them doing any acting at all. I don’t want my kids in show business. I keep them as far away from my work as possible.

I wasn’t even in a theater because I guess nobody believed in me, so I was in the hallway of a theater on a platform that they would move so the main stage show could go on at eight o’clock and I’d be gone.

I was just school class clown and that was it. Someday I’ll get a job as a cab driver or whatever.

I have a lot of heroes. I don’t think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act like they’re spontaneous generations – they are faking liars.

At Murry Bergtraum [High School] if you were really funny you sat at this table at with all of the funniest dudes, the toughest, the coolest – everybody sat at that table. It was like the ghetto Algonquin Round Table. [Comedy] was my entry, my membership card.