B. D. Wong famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Children #School #Kids
I remain on SVU because it is an incredible opportunity.
-- B. D. Wong

#Opportunity #Incredibles
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

#Gay #Thinking #People
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

#Men #Thinking #Hard Times
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

#Jobs #Order #Issues
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

#Writing #Empowering #Trying
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

#Strong #Reading #Mean
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

#Opportunity #Careers #Chinese
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

#Great Love #Violin #Certain

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.
The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.
I don't travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them.
I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.
He isnâ€™t like us Low. You know that right.â€ I knew what Cage was saying. Marcus was out of my league. He didnâ€™t want me thinking there could ever be anything between me and his roommate. I was low class. Marcus was a rich kid. â€œIâ€™m not stupid Cage.
Anyone who meets you and doesn't want to get to know you and be part of your life is stupid. I saw it when I was just a kid." "No. You thought I was a vampire and you wanted to be my friend so I wouldn't eat you." "Well, that too. But I found out soon enough you weren't a blood sucker and I still licked you.

B. D. Wong famous quotes

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