Santino Fontana Quotes

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

I get to do interesting roles and make a living.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.

Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world.

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish.

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.

I've been lucky. I've never really had a job that I did that I didn't like.

I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.

A lot of people don't know this: when I was young, I wanted to be a garbage man. I asked my mom, and she said they made good money, and it was steady work.

I've had days here and there where I would get discouraged because I wasn't a big star, but I've made a living ever since I was 27. Not a great living, but enough for me. I think actually being able to pay my rent and eat and perform is enough, and I did that for many years. Then I had some good years in there, too, where I made pretty good money.

I was teaching, which I didn't love or hate; it was just OK. I was OK with it, and the hours were good for surfing or whatever. All not good reasons to go into teaching.

I do love the stage, and that is incredibly rewarding.

My life is one that I've aimed for - I've always wanted to be an actor who worked in film and television and was able to provide for himself and his family.

There are decisions I could have made, moves I could have made, that would have got me seen more. I do it because I enjoy the craft and the challenge of trying to make something that doesn't exist come alive, and that's what I'm in it for.

I just want to do films that I like and to enjoy my work.

When a film does well, everyone is usually happy and grateful, but for me, the impression the film leaves upon my mind is created during the process of filming; my memories are not a reflection of critics' reviews and box office figures.

What I really, really love is writing. If I can just write and make a really nice living out of that, why would I change that?