Quotes by B. D. Wong - Page 1

I'm basically nocturnal.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Nocturnal
Basically
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I remain on SVU because it is an incredible opportunity.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Opportunity
Incredibles
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I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Opportunity
Incredible
Remain
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Bored
Me Who Like
Played
Characters
Super
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Fantastic
Lucky
Oz
Priest
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Television Shows
Totally
Alienate
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In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Closest
Sitcom
Closest Thing
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Misconception
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I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether its a man or a woman.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Men
Hard Times
Thinking
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Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Butterfly
Choices
Conscious
Makeup
Screen
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I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Time Thinking Man
Films
Hard Time
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I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Always Character Man
Character Actor
Character Man Always
Leading
Leading Man
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Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Empowering
Trying
Writing
Creatively
Incredibly
Tries
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Gay
Myth
People
Thinking
Tremendous
Lousy
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Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Clarity
Always Way Never
Accumulate
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I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Becoming
Being Myself
Low Level
Quite
More And More
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If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Opportunity
Careers
Chinese
Limit
Presented
Virtually
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I realize it's a cliche almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Cliche
Empowering
Healthy
Closet
Wonderful Thing
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I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Complicated
No Idea
Weird
Amazing People Way
Impersonal
Reach
Seemed
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Creative Person
Feeds
Vacuum
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There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Neat
Parent
Pure
Accidental
Desperately
Passionately
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Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Great Relationship
Logical
Parent
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I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Christmas
Information
Mean
Meaningless
Reading
Strong
Full
Letter
Resonate
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Repetitive
Vocabulary
Muscle
Developed
Memorize
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I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didnt really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didnt have a great love for it.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Certain
Great Love
Violin
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Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Kids
Casting
Children
Conservative
Doctors
School
Miss
Calls
World Children Parents
Opposed
Practical
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I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didn't have a great love for it.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Encouraging
Great Love
Violin
Love Success Good
Studied
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I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Fine
Movies Character World
Movies Character Always
Explored
Gets
Jurassic
Straight
Portrayed
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I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Asian
Bible
Broadway
Jeopardy
Musical
Musical Theater
Show Tunes
Theater
Tunes
Category
Lots
Broadway Show
Guess
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Jobs
Casting
Food Chain
Issues
Making A Living
Order
Producers
Chain
Minority
Pecking
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Jobs
New York
Cookies
Equity
Golden
Months
Odd
Odd Jobs
Ran
Saved
Theatre
Started
Card
Chip
Working
Few
Gate
Go Home
Mrs
Ok
Turned
York
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The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Audience
Enjoyment
Great Things
Storyteller
Surprise
Success Good Great
Aspects
Working
Letting
Storytellers
Withhold
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Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
B. D. Wong / Actor
Average
Everyday
Justify
Reason
Television
Transgender
Actor
Oh
Clearly
Ethnic
Rarely
Television Show
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I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Ability
Acknowledge
Careful
Deny
Ideas
Labels
Young
Yourself
Like
Fear Yourself Your
Affect
Me
Everyone
Be Yourself
Take
Find
Conforming
Respond
Defy
Else
Reject
Toll
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