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I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

John Leguizamo

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John Leguizamo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 22
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John Alberto Leguizamo
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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.
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[Brad Furman] wants to try stuff, he's willing to try stuff. And he wants electricity on the camera. And that's what I want, I want electricity whenever I'm performing.
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I had a whole new respect for directors.
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It was at a performance art space that's no longer around, Gusto House... All of these great performers from all over the country lived on the Lower East Side, and they would take somebody's living room that opened right onto the street, open the door and charge tickets and put up chairs.
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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.
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I did the bible as told through Hispanic people and they laughed and applauded. I thought, Oh my god, this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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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.
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My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.
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Pablo Escobar is one of the great stories of all time. It's a bizarre, dark version of success.
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Don't confuse the beginning of my world with the breakup of yours.
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I like helping people achieve their dreams just like people helped me.
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I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.
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Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.
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I think Brad [Furman] crafted an amazing film [The Infiltrator]. It's so complex, it's incredibly thrilling, incredibly touching and it's what people have been trying to do for years in Hollywood, is to try to capture what it's like to be undercover, what is that duality of life? And I think that Brad really caught that.
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Sid [the character from 'Ice Age'] 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.
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Well I was about to be expelled from school, I had been arrested and a teacher said: Why don't you try acting, instead of distracting the class? Why don't you use your comic talent for something more productive? My maths teacher suggested I do comedy and I decided to have a go. I pursued it after that. I was about 17.
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The New York Times made you or broke you.
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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.
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I knew Linda Cardellini from when we did ER together - she was always great, such a cool spirit.
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It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.
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