Quotes from John!!!

"The sterotype is a negative potrayal of other negative potrayals. A prototype is something invented, it's the first of it's kind That's what i try to be."

"Leguizamo...It's like poetry!"

"I grew up in Jackson Heights, which was like the big melting pot of America. And every accent was there, you know at my beck and call."

"That's my philosophy, offend them all equally. You know we all have something wrong with us!"

"Without acting i would have ended up somewhere really messed up. The fact that i made it is like a miracle."

"We've been together for 2 years, she is the greatest person i have ever known. A relationship takes alot of work, so we try to pay attention to it, guard it, keep it, cherish it. We're going to have a baby, I'm the luckiest man alive."

"I felt like a penis in condom."
-On his Clown costume from Spawn-

"I was a Ritallin child. I was uncontrollable. My report cars always had a 'F' for conduct. I was the king of detention."

"In entertainment we need more Latin people in the decision making process, and i want to see a Latin president with a cigar fetish."

'I was such a misfit. I just never fit in anywhere. I was nerdy, but I wasn't cool enough to hang out with the cool guys. My only value was to make them laugh, to be funny."

"A woman who can be strong, but can still make you feel like the greatest thing alive. Even if it's only for a moment."
-On the type of women he likes-

"Latins are very sexy because they are physical and in touch with their bodies. When you grow up touching and hugging, your comfortable with you sexuality."

"Nude scenes are tricky for men. If your aroused it shows, and if your not aroused it shows. Either way it's embarrasing. The thing has a mind of it's own."

"The Latin voice is something very lacking and missing in the medio."
-From his Emmy acceptance speach-

"I see the Latin artist as a pioneer, opening doors for others to follow, and when they don't open...we crowbar our way in. We are taking our culture and saturizing America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other people who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation. America may not realize it but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mamba kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inco princesses. Every Hernandez and Fernandez whom this country will one day come to understand and respect."

"I am able to take images that were troubling to me, put them on stage and still make them funny."

"Yes, I'm a Spic...I'm Spic-Tacular....I'm Spic-torious...I'm Inde-Spic-Able."

"Well it took me 10 years to become and overnight success. I started out doing a student film and it won a ton of awards, so they called me into Miami Vice, that was my first role. I was the son of the big Columbian cocaine king. I was Caldaorone come to avenge my fathers death."