B. D. Wong Quotes

#1. I'm basically nocturnal.

B. D. Wong

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.

B. D. Wong

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

B. D. Wong

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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