Nico Santos (Nico Wellenbrink) Quotes
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 worked on 'Game Of Thrones' for six years, so I'm very well equipped to handle hype surrounding television shows.
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I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.
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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
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I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
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For U.S. television series, I really like 'Dexter.'
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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.
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Why, since people must outnumber the minority that comprises the State and its oppressive forces, have they submitted so meekly to it?
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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
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We have no limits to our world. We're only limited by our imagination.
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We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
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Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress. It ensures that all advantages which result from higher productivity may eventually be enjoyed.
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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.
