John Leguizamo Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• 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.

• I was just school class clown and that was it. Someday I'll get a job as a cab driver or whatever.

  John Leguizamo

  Jobs, School, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I was always writing. I was writing in high school because it was a really competitive school for class clowns; I used to have to write all of my snaps and my disses the night before and then act like I was making it up the next day.

  John Leguizamo

  Writing, School, Night

  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.

• 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.

  John Leguizamo

  Art, Drama, School

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

• 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.

  John Leguizamo

  Writing, School, Trying

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

• 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.

  John Leguizamo

  School, Ghetto, Cards

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

• 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.

  John Leguizamo

  Father, School, Different

• I read that 36% of Latin kids drop out of high school, and we're the most bullied minority in schools right now. And my son had troubles in elementary school. So that made me really question being Latin in the United States.

  John Leguizamo

  Latin, School, Kids

  "John Leguizamo on ‘The Infiltrator’, ‘John Wick 2′, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 15, 2016.

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