B. D. Wong Quotes

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.

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• Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Work
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Change
  • Perfect
  • Perfection

• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Children
  • Why
  • Nephews

• Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Law
  • Fashion
  • Influence

• Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Important
  • Religious

• When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Work
  • Free
  • Resume

• I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual
  • Feel

• I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Like
  • Needs

• We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Faith
  • Young
  • Explain

• When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Will

• In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • You
  • Eyes

• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Interest
  • Lie
  • National

• We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Challenge

• I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Try
  • Possible
  • Risks

• Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • American
  • Beauty
  • Hollywood

• I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Thought
  • Humor
  • Tough

• If the film isn't suspenseful, i.e. the pressure cooker situation of what's going on in the movie, if that's not part of it, if the threat of violence and the temperature isn't always going up a notch every scene or so, then the movie is going to be boring. It's not going to work.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
  • Work
  • Movie

• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • More
  • Four
  • Thousand

• You want your coach's blessing.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Want
  • You
  • Blessing

• Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Follow

• I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Skin
  • Bleaching

• 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
  • Want
  • Way
  • Clarity