Nico Santos Quotes

I've grown up in a very diverse background.

Everybody has culture, even white people have culture, but its different with me. So in high school, I was hanging out with the black and Hispanic kids. I'm not hating on white people. I hang with white people, too, but that's where I felt most accepted because I could relate to them more.

In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

As far as diversity's concerned, there's me, there's Al Madrigal, there's Aasif Mandvi. But I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out.

In 19 years growing up in Israel I had no Jewish friends. Zero.

I have many non-Maharastrian friends.

In elementary school, I identified more with my Asian side. I had a lot of Korean friends, and then, once middle school hit, it was a little more diverse.

I don't think Latino; I think like me. If that happens to be Latino, then I guess that's me. But it doesn't affect my comedy in any way.

I'm from San Jose, CA, which is very diverse, and I grew up around a lot of different types of people.

There were no small brown kids as the centre of the children's fiction I grew up with.

I talk to everyone, but most of the people I hang out with are Latin.

I have black friends, but I don't just hang out with black kids. I might pull up with Indian kids, white kids, black kids, whatever.

What we had on was BBC Asian Network and Bollywood sound-tracks - they were my reference points. But of course, where I grew up, I was one of two Indian guys in my school, and I didn't really have anyone else to share that with.

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

I'm proud of being from Hawaii, and I'm proud of being Hawaiian, but I'm more than that, too.

I always say that when I first started, my videos were very veered towards Indian people.

I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of indie rock kids who happened to be white, too... Really, it was just when I started getting out there and meeting more people and seeing more fans that I went, 'Oh, actually, I'm not white.'

When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.

I think all races are represented in America much more than in many other places, but it's also nice to remind people about that ethnic mix. I would like to see more black models and women from different ethnic backgrounds, but I also think that when you are casting, you just choose the most beautiful girl you can find.

Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.