John Leguizamo
John Leguizamo
John Alberto Leguizamo is a Colombian-American actor, voice actor, producer, stand-up comedian, playwright and screenwriter. As of 2009, Leguizamo has appeared in over 75 films, produced over 10 films, starred on Broadway in several productions, made over a dozen television appearances, and has produced or starred in many other television shows...
NationalityColombian
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth22 July 1964
CountryColombia
player games waiting
I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like he [ Ben Mendelsohn ] was an opponent - you just know your game is going to jack up and it's just going to raise the bar. I couldn't wait for that elevation.
moving eight gone
I wasn't even in a theater because I guess nobody believed in me, so I was in the hallway of a theater on a platform that they would move so the main stage show could go on at eight o'clock and I'd be gone.
teacher school math
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."
latin kids actors
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.
art drama school
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.
directors rehearsal
Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.
military parent style
My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.
school writing trying
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.
teacher cartoon movement
I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.
breakup world
Don't confuse the beginning of my world with the breakup of yours.
class clown
The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.
school ghetto cards
At Murry Bergtraum [High School] if you were really funny you sat at this table at with all of the funniest dudes, the toughest, the coolest - everybody sat at that table. It was like the ghetto Algonquin Round Table. [Comedy] was my entry, my membership card.
comedian way
To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.
stars latin people
There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.