Dante Basco: Hip-hop is involved in my career, I feel I've always been a hip-hop artist, you know? No matter what I do, I'm part of the hip-hop generation.
Dante Basco: I'm Filipino and it does always influence you. You never forget that you're a person of color, you never forget that you're Asian-American. You never can.
Dante Basco: Yeah actually, I ended up using his [John Travolta] character in Saturday Night Fever as a kind of prototype for the character of Ramos in this film [Take the Lead].
Dante Basco: A lot of times in my life, I've been told I sound Black. I find it ironic that I'm playing this little Asian kid( referring to Jake on American Dragon: Jake Long ).
Dante Basco has always really liked girls.
Dante won the Young Artist Award for Outstanding Young Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture which was in the movie Hook in 1993.
Dante's favorite quote was "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." from the poem Invictus. By: William Ernest Henley
Dante Basco will appear in a Suite Life of Zack and Cody episode that will appear on Disney Channel in 2007 called Hollywood London.
Dante said women inspired him to write poetry.
Basco is Filipino but often portrays Puerto Rican characters in many of his films.
Dante has guest starred as Marco on Moesha.
Dante played in the movie Love Don't Cost a Thing.
Dante Basco starred in the movie Extreme Days.
Dante played Mario in the movie, Gangstaz. Dante also played Prince Hong in the movie, Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights and Dante also voiced some additional voices in the movie, A Goofy Movie.
Dante is the second youngest of the Basco brothers.
Dante lives in Los Angeles as of 2006.
Mae Whitman and Dante Basco both have roles on Avatar: The Last Airbender and American Dragon, Jake Long. In Avatar, Mae plays is on the good side with Dante on the bad side. In American Dragon, Dante is on the good side and Mae is kind of on the bad side.
Dante was in a commercial for V-Cast/Verizon, dancing in the streets to Nelly Furtado on "his" cell phone. He is seen twice. (2006)
Dante Basco plays young Fil-Am kid, Ben Mercado, in the movie The Debut, in 2000. The movie is about his sister's 18th birthday party which for Filipinos is called a Debut.
Dante has his own poetry venue.
Dante starred in the movie Hook as Rufio, the King of the Lost Boys.
Dante appeared in The Mastone Verson of Sonic the Hedghog: the Movie.
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