Nico Santos (Nico Wellenbrink) Quotes
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	I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.   
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	I'm more interested in producing than acting.   
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	I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.   
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	Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.   
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	I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.   
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	I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.   
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	I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.   
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	Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.   
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	The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.   
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	After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.   
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	I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.   
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	I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.   
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	I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.   
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	Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.   
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	Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.   
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	For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.   
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	I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.   
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	Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.   
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	To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.   
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	I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.   
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	To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.   
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	As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.   
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	Shawn Kemp was the player that I grew up watching, when he was with the SuperSonics.   
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	Superstore' is, like, my fifth acting job.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					