John Leguizamo

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

I'd love to do some period pieces and some historic work; I just feel like no one's tapped into Latin history and Latin contributions to the making of America, and we've been there over 500 years.

I love what I do. I would hate to give it up. But if I could, I would run for office in Texas. I would run someplace heinous to make a difference.

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

I love the power of theater. I think it's an experience you never forget.

I love life, man, and I embrace every minute of it, so maybe I bring that on the set.

All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

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.

I feel I don't get credit enough for it, the pioneering I did in comedy.

I feel American comedy is a little too light. World cinema, and Latin cinema, is much more comfortable with darker emotions.