Words matter. These are the best Vincent Rodriguez III Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I can play multiple instruments. I love a cappella. I love barbershop. I love magic.
My dad wanted me to be a businessman, but I felt that wasn’t for me.
Many times, you have to sacrifice the paycheck for doing what you love.
It’s the best gift any teacher could possibly get, to go back to where you came from and offer knowledge and camaraderie.
I think the best thing you can do for an audition is to just do your work, be creative. It’s OK to be spontaneous.
It’s so easy to make an Asian person the doctor, the lawyer, the smart kid in school. What’s harder is challenging the norm and hiring Asian actors to play your Average Joe.
Theater is an amazing outlet.
We need to encourage the presence of more Asian writers and executive producers so they can fight for normalizing the casting of Asians in traditional American roles.
Rejection doesn’t always mean I’m not good enough.
I wanted a Broadway credit, but ‘Crazy Ex’ came along, and it blessed me.
Upon graduating from my acting program at The Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA, I went to my first tap audition. It was for the 1st national equity tour of ’42nd Street.’
Between acting jobs, I’d go visit my hometown and college town to see family and friends. But I would also teach acting, dance, singing, and audition techniques in high schools and colleges. I take great pride in all the survival jobs I worked, because I learned so much from them.
Both my parents were born in the Philippines. My dad is full Filipino, but my mom looks a little mixed, and her mom’s name is Estelita Coquico.
I remember, after getting my very first CD player for a birthday, I immediately purchased the soundtrack to the movie ‘Grease.’
I basically learned hip-hop from *NSYNC. And then while I was touring in theater shows, and I couldn’t take classes in hip-hop but I wanted to, I just watched Justin Timberlake concerts.
I am ambitious, and I’m excited for my career to grow, and I do want to represent the Asian community and the Filipino community.
I was crazy into performing when I was younger. I was obsessed with the craft of acting, and theatre, and stage. You know the term ‘theatre geek?’ I am the extreme theatre geek.
Trust your instincts, and the best way to trust them is to practice them.
Gene Kelly has meant so much to me through the years. I used to dance in my living room in socks and a tee-shirt, no idea what I was doing, but wanting to dance like Gene.
New York reminds me of what my career was like when I lived here, so when I walk through the streets, I remember when I had ten bucks in my pocket and all I could eat is Chipotle.
I was singing R&B songs, listening to Boyz II Men, and I wanted to take dance classes, but I waited until my senior year of high school to take my very first dance class.
Acting takes a lot of practice, but so does auditioning.
I felt like I wasn’t considered for minority or Caucasian male lead roles. There aren’t really a lot of roles written for me, and I mean me and who I am in real life.
Times are changing, and it’s catching on that the roles on TV and film need to reflect its diverse viewers.
I definitely have had my down times and also have had my times of being very, very unemployed.
