197 Quotes by John Leguizamo

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

I’m just more comfortable with people who are like me than the people who are not.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That’s self-expression.

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.

Acting is kind of a calling for me so I’m just happy to be there and do great work.

I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, “You’re failing in school, you’re messing up, why don’t you just try this?” I said, “Alright, let me try it,” and I started going to acting classes and I loved it. I thought, “I may not make it but I love doing it.”

Some kids are fine, but often I don’t like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing an interest, so I have to try to discourage them, squash that in them.

It’s not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience. The difference is that making a live action movie you are using your whole body.

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