Words matter. These are the best Nico Santos Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t cook as often as I would like.
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.
I was in the closet up until I moved to the U.S. But I was always one of those kids who couldn’t really hide being gay. Some queer kids are just more straight-passing than others. I was not one of those kids.
I’m from the Philippines and I moved to this country when I was 16.
Never in a million years would I have imagined that this is how my life would have ended up. I just thought I would be living in the States, doing a regular job.
I think any immigrant who comes to this country also knows somebody who is undocumented.
Ellen DeGeneres is a huge influence in my life. She’s one of the reasons why I wanted to do stand-up comedy. I was a big fan of her stand-up before she even came out of the closet.
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.
I’m so Filipino. I’m fluent in Filipino.
I hate that femininity in a gay men is a ‘stereotype.’
When I got that role of Mateo in ‘Superstore,’ it was such a huge victory for me, professionally and personally.
It’s really great to see the queer landscape really change to include everybody and make the rest of the world understand that we’re not just one or two things. There’s so much about the queer community that needs to be represented.
Generally I try to be as healthy as possible, but it’s hard to be on set because anything and everything is available to you. I’m healthy half the time, and half the time I’m like, ‘Sure let me go back and see whatever snack they have laid out.’
Everything you could imagine Michelle Yeoh being, she lives up to that.
I come from Oregon, which is this super-white state, so I didn’t really have a lot of Asian friends in high school and college. And my background’s in comedy, and your friends are just your peers in comedy, which is a whole mix of people.
I never thought in a million years I’d be involved in a project that celebrated the fullness of my identity of being queer and Asian.
It wasn’t until I worked on ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ that I all of a sudden have this Asian crew of friends that I became super close with.
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.
I think I understand why most actors and actresses are insane, because having to go through an emotional roller coaster as your job every day of your life would make somebody absolutely loopy.
I want to show people out there that there’s such a huge spectrum of people within the queer and Asian community.
I’ve done retail before.
I love my mom! She’s just great and so happy for me that I’m living my dream.
I’ve gotten auditions with as little as two hours’ notice. Those don’t go so well!
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.
My brother joined the Army. He served multiple tours in Iraq and now lives in Texas with his family.
We all need to call upon our lawmakers to create a path to citizenship for hard-working, law-abiding undocumented people and their families.
A lot of people know me from my character that I play on ‘Superstore,’ Mateo, and I’m not interested in playing straight roles. I’m all about playing queer roles.
The best comedy is based on truth.
People with accents exist and just because they have an accent doesn’t mean they’re less intelligent or what-have-you.
Especially when you’re queer and you’re a person of color, you’re so used to being the token on set. Inevitably you have to answer dumb questions from someone. You’re the ‘other.’
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.
It still baffles my brain that I actually get to portray a character on American television that’s this gay, femme-y Filipino guy.
Femme people exist, and they are layered and they are complex and they are intelligent.
I miss Philippine mangoes, you just can’t get them here. Mangoes, you can’t get lanzones here, you can’t get siniguelas, all these fruits that I grew up with.
You rarely see a Filipino family on TV.
