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About John Leguizamo
John Alberto Leguizamo (born July 22, 1964) is a Colombian-American comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is the winner of an Emmy and was nominated for a Golden Globe award.
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“Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.”
“He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating.”
“There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.”
“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.”
“There was no point. It's already done. Let's leave that alone. I mean, if you're not going to come there with something new, then just leave it alone.”
“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.”
“He made the characters a lot more three-dimensional. It's still a 'B' movie and it's still kinda campy. Now it's these really well-developed characters, really three-dimensional.”
“We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation.”
“I was familiar with that and “Rio Bravo.” “Rio Bravo” was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.”
“America may not realize it yet, but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mambo kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inca princesses, every Hernandez and Fernandez, whom this country will one day come to understand and respect.”
“He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, … I went like all pale. I felt all the blood leave my body. And then my father was like, 'How dare you?' And he stormed out of the theater and I followed him and we fought and argued and hugged and he cried and we made up.”
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John Leguizamo on Education in the United States 4 quotes
“You see all these white heroes, everybody is white, all the literature classes—your Shakespeare, your poetry — everybody’s white, and you start to feel less than.”
John Leguizamo on History 2 quotes
“I started to think why people feel comfortable disrespecting us in a way that’s just not normal or natural. And I started to think that it's because our contributions aren't in history textbooks.”
About John Leguizamo
John Alberto Leguizamo (born July 22, 1964) is a Colombian-American comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is the winner of an Emmy and was nominated for a Golden Globe award.