34 Quotes by B. D. Wong

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.

Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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