Quotes by Benedict Wong - Page 1

I'd like to helm my own series. Something British.
Benedict Wong /
British
Helm
Series
Own Something My Own
My Own Own Something
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Customer freedom! Don't dictate how I want to watch my TV!
Benedict Wong /
Customer
Dictate
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I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.
Benedict Wong /
Classify
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We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up.
Benedict Wong /
Action
Growing Up
Hong Kong
Watched
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People call me Benny. And as long as they put Benedict on my paycheck, I don't care.
Benedict Wong /
Don't Care
Me Long People
Me Long Care
Benny
Long Me People
Paycheck
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Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in 'Enter The Dragon' is amazing.
Benedict Wong /
Choreography
Hero
Bruce
Enter
Lee
Mine
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Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.
Benedict Wong /
Ears
Polo
Build
Bridge
Eyes
First One
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Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'
Benedict Wong /
Cinematic
Honour
Great Man Great Man
Master
Great Man
Ridley Scott
Scott
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Occasionally, when you do a take, and - what I kind of sort of like is asking for a PPB - Personal Play Back.
Benedict Wong /
Occasionally
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I remember getting my mum to drive me to watch a Jackie Chan film when I was, like, eleven and trying to tell them I was fifteen.
Benedict Wong /
Fifteen
Jackie
Me Remember Drive
Jackie Chan
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It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
Benedict Wong /
British
East
East Asian
Label
Obviously
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Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.
Benedict Wong /
Perception
Polo
Uncommon
Explain
Noticed
Vividly
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Honestly, I was watching Marvel films and was always crestfallen: Where are the super-Asians? People are looking to be represented by their heroes.
Benedict Wong /
Looking People Always
Marvel
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When you're a kid that's spent all your pocket money buying Spider-Man comics, and then as an adult, you're in the Marvel Universe, and you get to meet Stan Lee - it's wonderful.
Benedict Wong /
Buying
Spider Man
Universe
Adult
Lee
Marvel
Pocket
Stan
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In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's it. So let's just get on with it, really.
Benedict Wong /
Accepted
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Let's bang the gong and chime for more Asian superheroes. The gatekeepers can certainly open the door - there's a wealth of East Asian talent around, and that needs to be tapped into.
Benedict Wong /
Asian
Gatekeepers
Bang
East Asian
Gong
Superheroes
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In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.
Benedict Wong /
Reflecting
Representation
Television
Wrong Time
Period
Passed
Terms
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I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.
Benedict Wong /
Figures
Grandson
Historical
Polo
Trading
Empire
Explorer
Ruler
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In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you.
Benedict Wong /
Quiet
Silence
Deathly
Horses
Roads
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I've been really pleasantly surprised by 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I'd never really heard of that gang before, that comic series before. And I think when you go into those, watching those sort of films, you watch them with no expectation as well, so you're always kind of pleasantly surprised, I think.
Benedict Wong /
Galaxy
Gang
Expectation
Guardians
Pleasantly
Surprised
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