B. D. Wong
B. D. Wong
Bradley Darryl Wongis an American actor. He won a Tony Award for his performance as Song Liling in M. Butterfly, becoming the only actor in Broadway history to receive the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theatre World Award for the same role...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth24 October 1960
CountryUnited States of America
B. D. Wong quotes about
writing empowering trying
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
jobs order issues
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.
men thinking hard-times
I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether its a man or a woman.
gay thinking people
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
children school kids
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.
great-love violin certain
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.
opportunity careers chinese
If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
opportunity incredibles
I remain on SVU because it is an incredible opportunity.
strong reading mean
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.
characters far fine gets land movies playing portrayed stay straight
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.
accidental gay hope kids parent pure single
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.
aspects audience good great letting movies success surprise withhold
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.
amount certain creative fame famous feeds time vacuum
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.
build developed easily memorize people repetitive
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.