Nico Santos Quotes

Nico Santos

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 7, 1979

The fact that I am a Filipino actor playing a Filipino role is crazy. Filipinos are the second largest Asian minority in the United States, and we're hardly represented in the media and on television.

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I came out to one or two people in high school and then it wasn't until I was a freshman in college that I was fully out of the closet. It was like the late '90s.

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When I moved to L.A., I had no intention of really pursuing acting. I wanted to focus on stand-up. It's crazy to me that my acting career took off much faster than my stand-up career.

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I'm portraying out characters, I'm portraying femme characters, characters that are really outside of the box. I never thought I would get that opportunity to portray those characters at all, much less have a career that I have.

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My brownness is something that I can't hide. There are some straight-acting or straight-passing queer people out there, but I'm not one of them. This is something I would rather not have to hide.

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My dad was undocumented for a period of time, my mom was also undocumented for a period of time.

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Within the Filipino community, everybody knows somebody who's undocumented.

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Shows like 'Superstore' and certainly 'Pose' are leading the way and showing queer people of color in a much more complex, nuanced light that we've never seen.

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What I've come to find out is it doesn't matter if you're selling a $10,000 gown or toilet paper: The everyday sort of humdrum of customer service and retail is the same.

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In high school the very first job I got was I worked as a cashier in Burgerville, which is this fast food place in Oregon. I kind of grew up to be a spoiled little kid so my dad was like, 'You're going to get a job for the summer!' I was this clueless immigrant like, 'May I take your order? Sorry sir, I don't know what I'm doing!'

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I love my mom! She's just great and so happy for me that I'm living my dream.

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I've done retail before.

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I'm from the Philippines and I moved to this country when I was 16.

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We, Filipinos, are really great about keeping a positive attitude and seeing the silver lining in all things. We're survivors!

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I've gotten auditions with as little as two hours' notice. Those don't go so well!

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I had a rough start when I moved to L.A. I couldn't find a job, so I couch-surfed for the first two years.

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I'm so Filipino. I'm fluent in Filipino.

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I should have been born a crazy rich Asian because I do have expensive taste. I have champagne taste but I'm on a beer budget.

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Everything you could imagine Michelle Yeoh being, she lives up to that.

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My mom is definitely crazy. She would totally be a stage mom if I was a child actor.

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