B. D. Wong Quotes

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it’s a man or a woman.

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.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I’m doing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If I played characters who were like me, I’d be super bored.

I remain on ‘SVU’ because it is an incredible opportunity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Television shows and movies that are all white, I can’t watch them. They totally alienate me.

I’m basically nocturnal.

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.

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.

In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it’s like working in the theater.

There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

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.