BD Wong Quotes

I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

When I was doing 'All in the Family,' half the time, I was looking at where the cameras were, where were the other actors in the scene, what the audience was doing.

I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.