A biography for Dante Bascohasn’t been written yet.
“Back In 1982, I started in show business with my brothers. We started a break dancing group.”
“It's illegal to hire or fire anybody because of their race, appearance, or sexual orientation, but in Hollywood, ironically, it's the reason people will hire or not hire you.”
“It's even rougher for the kids today because they have social media - it's as if they're being interviewed every moment of the day even when they're just interviewing themselves, putting out a tweet or an Instagram post.”
“'Hook' became a cult classic without all the lore.”
“I love being part of the 'Avatar' family.”
“I kind of got popular as a spoken word artist, and I ended up doing some ads and audio stuff for Nike and Sprite.”
“After 'Hook,' it was so sad for all of us to watch the set get destroyed. We were at the end of 'Hook,' and we're walking off the Sony lot and we're literally seeing the boat get destroyed. That was the sad thing, seeing that go.”
“I love seeing the new generation take something that we've done and reinvent it for a whole new time.”
“I got to see this big crazy wild man Robin Williams on the set, and got to act with him in that sense. And then I got to just have really quiet time with him in the trailer, where he's way more soft-spoken, way more introspective.”
“Look, everyone who ever comes to Hollywood, you hope to do something that people will remember you for.”
“'Dead Poets Society' was a very influential film on me and so talking about that movie with him, he just inspired me to continue writing poetry and we talked a lot about our favourite poets. My wrap present from Robin was a beautiful limited edition copy of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' and that's a great memory for me.”
“Starting out so young meant missing out on a lot of things that kids do, that your friends are doing, whether it was playing team sports or school dances with friends. I remember having fights with my mother when I was young about 'Why can't I just go have frozen yogurt with my friends after school and go hit on the girls at the library?'”
“In Hollywood, I was never restricted to just one Asian character. I've been cast as a Chinese, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Japanese and a Cambodian.”
“For me, my first fandom was 'Star Wars.'”