197 Quotes by John Leguizamo

Most of the great directors I’ve worked with – De Palma, Spike Lee – like rehearsals.

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

When you feel the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, “They were able to do it. They had hard times and a lot of opposition, but they got through it.” Then you feel, “I can do it too.”

After kids leave the house, they can decide to do whatever they want, but while they’re under my roof, they’re going to be lawyers or writers or something, something important, anything except actors.

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

Is there a God? Yeah, but there’s not just one God. There’s a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn’t have possibly made so many mistakes all by Himself. This had to be done by committee.

Sid is a prehistoric sloth. Sloths move really slowly and they store food in the cheek pouches. That’s where I got the voice that you hear. He had to sound as though he was storing food.

So many people, my friends and family, were all saying, “You’re so funny. Why don’t you become a comedian or an actor?” But it wasn’t a reality at the time, it wasn’t a road that Latin people were accepted in.

There were no Latin people on ‘Star Trek,’ that this was proof that they weren’t planning to have us around for the future.