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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
-
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
-
Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
-
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.
-
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?
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and 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.
-
When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
-
In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
-
Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
-
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
-
We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
-
I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
-
Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
-
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.
-
What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
-
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
-
I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
-
You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
-
Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.
-
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.
