John Leguizamo Quotes
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.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
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And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being on the road.
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Who was it who said, 'I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish.'? Whoever it was, I agree with him.
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Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
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I've realized over the years I either play very good people or very bad people, and I think I always enjoy the very bad people more.
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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.
