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" Fiona Shaw is a goddess to me. "

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" Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. "

" I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug. "

" I am a vampire/werewolf and sci-fi fanatic. God is so good! I get to play in a series that has all that! "

" I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else. "

" I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene. "

" I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing. "

" I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan. "

" Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn't look at me and go, 'He's a leading man.' "

" But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you. "

" Let gay people get married. "

" The sci-fi fans in America... they are die-hard. They will follow you to the ends of the Earth. Once they attach themselves to a show and believe in the show and love the characters, they're there forever, and they're unshakeable. "

" I'd always dabbled in acting. "

" My mom's side, they're southern Baptist Christian. "

" You have to be a tough gay person in the South. "

" Anna Paquin is marvelous, and she brings so much experience to the table. "

" The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well. "

" When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.' "

" Everybody kept saying, 'I just don't know how to sell you.' I'm odd. I don't think you can put a finger on me. "

" I can't approach a character with judgment. "

" I had no intention of being an actor. "

" Whenever you have a character in which one of his defining qualities is his sexuality, it's always challenging, because you don't want to bring in someone who's going to play that in a phony way. "

" It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students. "

" My years at Thornridge probably changed the course of my life. "

" You have to learn to not hate who you have to live with. "

" Being different gives the world color. "

Being Different

" Acting is the only thing that makes me happy. "

" The beautiful thing about this country is that I can be a Christian and feel free to do so. Or somebody cannot be a Christian and do whatever that entails. Or somebody can be a Christian and still be gay, and I support it. "

" I don't look anything like my mother, except when I'm Lafayette. I look like my father. "

" I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or violating the laws of society. "

" There were not many black students at Juilliard, unfortunately. So when you get there, you become very good friends, in particular, with the other black students. "