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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.
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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It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.
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First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major.
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The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.
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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.
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I keep my kids out of the whole business entirely. Allegra and Lucas are five and six and I'm not interested in them doing any acting at all. I don't want my kids in show business. I keep them as far away from my work as possible.
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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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The message is one of the beautiful things about the film. And I think part of the appeal is simply that they are prehistoric creatures, they are no longer around and that makes them magical and makes us feel quite emotional, because we know that those creatures did not survive in the long run, so there's poignancy in their fight for survival.
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