Top 25 B. D. Wong Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

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.

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

I’m basically nocturnal.

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.

Playing the priest on ‘Oz’ was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

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

Having done ‘M. Butterfly,’ I’m conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.

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

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.

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.

I’ve always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there’s a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

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.

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