I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.
John LeguizamoI 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 LeguizamoFirst 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 LeguizamoSid [the character from 'Ice Age'] is a prehistoric sloth. Sloths move really slowly and they store food in the cheek pouches. That's where I got the voice that you hear. He had to sound as though he was storing food.
John LeguizamoVoices come to me but to maintain them is hard work. They go away just as easily, so I have to remember them and that takes work. With Sid, I needed to make sure you could understand what he is saying, his enunciation. Sometimes I couldn't even say my own name [his name] in his voice. It sounds like 'Shid', it sounds a bit like he has a lisp.
John Leguizamo