B. D. Wong Quotes

I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

B. D. Wong

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 24, 1960

Topics

FearLiveYourselfMeIdeasSomeone

There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.

John Hume

ChangePowerIdentityMindHands

I wasn't afraid of anything until I had a kid. Then I was terrified because immediately I could imagine a hundred ways in which I could not protect him.

John Irving

ProtectKidHimAfraidAnything

I always approach film as a fan.

Michael Fassbender

AlwaysFilmFanApproach

If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.

Steve Gleason

LifePurposePeopleCoolWorldHelp

In Tom Cone's work nothing is easy.

Roger Rees

WorkEasyNothingTomCone

When you're under a microscope from an early age, you realize that people aren't always going to like you. And that's OK. And you're going to fail publicly, and that's OK, too.

Ronan Farrow

AgePeopleYouEarlyRealizeAlways

I was always told I was ugly. I still think I am ugly. I know I've got an odd face and you can't tell me otherwise.

Mika

I AmUglyMeFaceThinkYou

I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.

Dixie Carter

HappyBelieveDirectionThinkChurch

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Wilson Mizner

GoodWisdomAdviceProfitMoreGive

Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.

Paul Weller

CitySongSaturdayCountryKidBell

My end goal is not to break the record for cashing in the most. I want to be treated fair and what I feel is fair, but that's not my sole purpose; that's not my purpose.

Tyron Woodley

PurposeEndFeelGoalWantFair

Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them.

Tig Notaro

FoodHairEatingReadingEnjoyYou

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