197 Quotes by John Leguizamo

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.

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.

When I started performing I was like, “Holy hell, how am I going to survive this?” I was giving it my all in 15 minutes but now I had to do it for two hours.

That’s the happiest I am, when I’m doing great work.

I walked around my apartment with food in my mouth asking myself: “How do I come up with this voice?” Then I found the voice. I called the director and said on the phone: “Guess who you’re talking to Chris? Sid, that’s right Sid!” And that’s how I came up with the voice. That’s a true story.

I had to work with Ben Mendelsohn who’s one of the great actors of our time. I had a lot of scenes with him and I was thrilled to be on the set with him; I just wanted to see how we were going to play it.

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

We need to stand up and become a united front against a common enemy. It's important for us to not be divided.

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