John Leguizamo Quotes

Repetition makes perfect.

You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.

You only get better by playing.

Learn by practice.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

There is nothing like practice.

I think, for different types of things, more rehearsal is very important.

One of the great things about doing a play, repeating it over and over again, is that you can practice. And you can get really quite good at it for a while.

I'll keep improving with more games.

Before I do anything, I practice it for a while, and then when I know it's the bomb, then I'm gonna present it to everybody.

I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

I may not be able to re-record a song, but I can do a better job each time I sing it.

The biggest challenge to me is always technique.

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

Repetitions - I think that's one of the best ways during the season to maintain something or get better at it, is just to do it over and over.

Great performers - in sports, the arts, business, or whatever field - have undertaken massive amounts of training. And when that training is complete... they train some more, and harder than they expect to perform. Why? Training builds confidence and ensures peak performance.

If you're any good at all at what you do, you get better the more you do it.

That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.

In football, there's always room for improvement.

Finishing is different to shooting. If you work at in in training sessions then you will just do it naturally during the game.

Because I am of a generation and slightly old-fashioned, my bottom line belief is what you do is you rehearse and you work and you own it. Of course, you hone it during the first few performances but once you have it honed, not that you must ever assume it is perfect, part of the craft is being able to repeat that.