- John Leguizamo: I don't wanna leave you with a bad impression of my father. No, no, because my father wasn't always this brutal. No, sometimes he drank too.
- John Leguizamo: Once upon a time... there was a Little Red Riding Hood... and she went into the woods... and she got a Greencard. And she lived happily ever after, now shut the fuck up and go to sleep!
- John Leguizamo: I was outnumbered. But I didn't care, 'cause I did what any Spanish kid raised in the ghetto would do... I acted like a retard.
- John Leguizamo: On the way to our tenement building, it was like the modern day Tower of Babel. The many colors of Beneton were there.