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John Leguizamo
Colombian
Comedian
Born:
Jul 22
,
1964
Always
Great
Love
Me
Myself
You
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Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.
John Leguizamo
Latin
Like
Republicans
Raid
All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.
John Leguizamo
Mask
Way
Draw
Except
Smarter
Camouflage
Artists
Which
Lives
Rehearsals make a huge difference.
John Leguizamo
Make
Huge
Huge Difference
Difference
Rehearsals
Independent film is for actors that love to act.
John Leguizamo
Love
Independent
Independent Film
Act
Film
Actor
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.
John Leguizamo
Love
Hate
Run
Would
Someplace
Give
Could
Make
Make A Difference
Texas
Up
Office
Difference
If I Could
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.
John Leguizamo
Speak
Black
First
Incredible
Latino
Hop
Would
Tried
Never
Had
He
Him
Masterpiece
Forefathers
Hip
Hip-Hop
Gotten
Hamilton
Were
Going
Theater
Hollywood
Created
Ever
Imagine
He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating.
John Leguizamo
Somebody
Way
Networking
He
Operating
Always
Jail
Use
Thinks
Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk.
John Leguizamo
Great
Drunk
Reading
Before
Crew
Out
Yeah
Came
Go
Encouraged
Get
Us
Really
Fun
Night
Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.
John Leguizamo
Poet
Daughter
Every
Out
Someone
Could
She
Go
Loser
His
Bum
Going
Want
Loves
Successful
Who
Dad
Her
I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.
John Leguizamo
Teacher
Great
Me
Walk
Cartoon
Had
He
Like
Becoming
How
Movement
At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.
John Leguizamo
School
Father
Out
Possible
High
Very
Different
Wanted
Acted
To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.
John Leguizamo
You
Way
Comedian
Around
Gotta
I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.
John Leguizamo
Doors
Others
Our
Way
Latin
Follow
See
Open
New
Opening
Up
Pioneer
Artist
Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.
John Leguizamo
Happiness
Time
You
Marriage
Joy
Thought
Long
Long Time
Wild
Say
Perfect
Wrong
After
Land
Chopin or Billy Eckstine or Miles Davis - that stuff helps me, more when I've already written and I need a little energy to keep editing.
John Leguizamo
Me
Editing
Energy
More
Davis
Written
Stuff
Little
Miles
Miles Davis
Chopin
Billy
Helps
Keep
Need
Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They're not cutting edge.
John Leguizamo
Edge
Corny
TV
Exciting
Like
Cheesy
Anymore
Movies
Cutting
Cutting Edge
I was quiet a lot when I was picked on as a kid because I didn't have anything to say back.
John Leguizamo
Back
Say
Kid
Picked
Because
Lot
Quiet
Anything
I was growing up and maturing at a time where we were invisible, man. We were nowhere except negative. Any time you saw a Latin person in Hollywood or on TV, they were some sort of negative character.
John Leguizamo
Time
Character
You
Man
Negative
Saw
Latin
TV
Some
Except
Invisible
Sort
Were
Up
Maturing
Person
Any
Where
Hollywood
Growing
Growing Up
Nowhere
Work for work's sake doesn't thrill me, but when I'm in the zone, I'm creative, and the expression is free.
John Leguizamo
Work
Me
Creative
Free
Thrill
Sake
Expression
Zone
You think you've done it all, and then you realize, 'No, there's so much more to do.'
John Leguizamo
You
Think
More
Done
Realize
Then
Much
I'd love to do some period pieces and some historic work; I just feel like no one's tapped into Latin history and Latin contributions to the making of America, and we've been there over 500 years.
John Leguizamo
Work
Love
History
Latin
Some
Feel
Over
Like
Pieces
Period
Period Pieces
Making
Been
Years
Historic
America
Contributions
Just
Facebook I would've liked, but I made a huge mistake, and I made it a public page, and it didn't work out for me. I just put my name on it, and I didn't know how Facebook worked.
John Leguizamo
Work
Me
Facebook
Mistake
Made
Out
Put
Name
Know
Liked
How
Huge
Just
Public
Work Out
Worked
Page
I've never really thought of myself as just an actor; I always thought of myself as aspiring to be an artist, and an artist has to take risks and put himself on the line.
John Leguizamo
Myself
Risks
Thought
Take
Never
Put
Himself
Always
Line
Artist
Just
Really
Aspiring
Actor
I'm a very tough dad. I mean, I'm a fun dad, but I'm a tough dad.
John Leguizamo
Tough
Very
Mean
Fun
Dad
We need a lot more positive Latin role models in movies and in television. They exist! It's not fiction.
John Leguizamo
Positive
Latin
Television
More
Exist
Lot
Role
Role Models
Models
Fiction
Movies
Need
I love the power of theater. I think it's an experience you never forget.
John Leguizamo
Love
You
Experience
Power
Think
Never
Never Forget
Forget
Theater
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