Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Santiago Cabrera

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Chilean actor Santiago Cabrera.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Santiago Cabrera

Santiago Cabrera is a Chilean actor who has worked mainly in the UK and United States. Cabrera is best known for his roles as the character Isaac Mendez in the television series Heroes, Lancelot in the BBC drama series Merlin, and Aramis in the BBC series The Musketeers. He was also the lead in the TV show Salvation as Darius Tanz, and played Captain Cristóbal "Cris" Rios in Star Trek: Picard.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.
My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.
I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally. — © Santiago Cabrera
I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.
I own two or three pairs of jeans and a bunch of T-shirts.
In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't want to be put in a category, to be just offered the same sort of thing. For me, it's all about different roles, telling the stories of the great writers.
I don't really watch what I eat. I love sitting around with friends and eating loads and drinking loads for hours. Maybe when I'm 40 I'll worry about my diet.
How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.
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