John Leguizamo Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

  John Leguizamo

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Character

• The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh.

  John Leguizamo

  Beautiful, Acting, Currents

• I'm not really against a lot of things unless they are just pure exploitation and then they create their own copycat culture that comes from someone acting irresponsibly. That's dangerous when that happens.

  John Leguizamo

  Acting, Copycats, Culture

  "InDepth InterView: John Leguizamo". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. April 1, 2011.

• 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.

  John Leguizamo

  Kids, Acting, Want

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• It's been great, I have to dig deep for really raw emotions and at the same time I have to use my intellect to say the ridiculous medical jargon while acting and treating a patient and then I have to try to have a personality and emotions as well. So it is definitely hard work.

  John Leguizamo

  Hard Work, Personality, Trying

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  John Leguizamo

  Teacher, School, Math

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• Yes it did really. It was very exciting to find that my energy could be directed into something more useful and positive. I was starting to get panicked. I was thinking 'what am I going to do with my life?' I wasn't sure what was going to happen. Then I became crazily obsessed with acting. I suddenly had a work ethic and then everything changed completely for the better because I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

  John Leguizamo

  Thinking, Work Ethic, Acting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.

  John Leguizamo

  Acting, Calling, Kind

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

• 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."

  John Leguizamo

  Teacher, School, Math

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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