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John Leguizamo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 22
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Painter
Playwright
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Bogota
Colombia
John Alberto Leguizamo
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The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.
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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 like helping people achieve their dreams just like people helped me.
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I love cartoons. So when they came to me to make Ice Age and this sequel, I was so happy.
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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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I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life.
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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.
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Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.
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People can be anonymous when they go on blogs and say crazy things that they would never have the courage to say to your face.
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You know, I am kind of a bi-polarish schitzerphrenic. I run the gamut of being incredibly shy and withdrawn to being a crazy-eccentric exhibitionist. And I have always been like that.
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Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.
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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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Voices come to me but to maintain them is hard work. They go away just as easily, so I have to remember them and that takes work. With Sid, I needed to make sure you could understand what he is saying, his enunciation. Sometimes I couldn't even say my own name [his name] in his voice. It sounds like 'Shid', it sounds a bit like he has a lisp.
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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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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.
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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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Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid.
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I grew up with a lot of cats like that and they always were so surprising, magnetic, and electrifying. You can't be with them too long because they burn you out but the energy, the impulsivity, and the freedom connecting them to their animal energy is just so powerful to watch. It's dangerous to live like that but it's riveting to watch.
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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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I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.
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