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born 1964 Colombia
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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He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.
Education is the first step to empowerment.
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.
He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating.
Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.
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 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.
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.
I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.
You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.
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.
If everyone in your class has heroes and they can relate to them in textbooks and literature, and then you don't see any of your heritage there, you feel less than. And I always wanted to be able to make Latin kids like myself feel more than.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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