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" I learned a lot about self-reinvention. How you can be born Milton Sternberg in the Bronx and then become Monroe Stahr in Hollywood. "

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" It's all about communication and a dialogue between individuals - get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid of the stigmas and just be your most authentic self. "

" Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?' "

" When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind. "

" My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans. "

" My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is. "

" I felt a responsibility to Simon and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of 'This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public.' "

" You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person. "

" For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on 'White Collar' over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show. "

" I love 'Sunset Boulevard.' I love the writing, I love the performances, I love the camera work. I think it's a perfect movie. "

" Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly with what she did on 'Mad Men.' "

" I have more faith in Santa Claus now than I do an exec. "

" I used to go to sports camp every summer. I'd make a lot of new friends, and it was all athletic. It was basically a place for parents to send their kids to run out all their summer energy for two weeks. "

" While I feel that I have a great reservoir to draw from as an actor for lots of different roles, it is difficult because it can be an industry where it's people's jobs to thin-slice you really quickly and try to fit you into a niche in the market. "

" To me, when you're at a hotel, and your home environment is ultimately dictated by somebody else, I always find that a little bit oppressive and scary in a way. Especially if it's not done well or not run well. "

" There were, and still are, a lot of different points of view in the gay community. It's not everybody holding hands and singing 'Kumbaya.' People have very different perspectives. "

" I was cold-calling agents when I was, like, 9 years old, and I was like, 'Mom, I need this thing called a headshot.' "

" As a gay man in Hollywood, I certainly understand what it means to be in it but not of it, to be marginalized at times and kept out of certain clubs. "

" I like to just work with great directors. "

" Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. "

" I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell. "

" Thankfully, I have a very full life. I'm married with kids, so I have a lot of things to focus on, other projects either in post-production or pre-production, so you just do the best you can. "

" I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work. "

" I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively. "

" I think if you start to think too much about things that are completely out of control, it will just drive you crazy as an actor. "

" For some reason, they always gave me a fat suit in high-school productions. If there was a character who needed to be robust, they gave me a fat suit, and I put on a silly voice. "

" I'm completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life. "

" Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that. "

" Obviously, when you finish something like 'White Collar,' there are so many opportunities to just do something similar because people want that kind of thing, and I really have tried to stretch myself out, for better or for worse. I hope that I'm able to get to continue to do that, as an artist, and I'm not the guy who shows up to be charming. "

" I would say confidence and security and comfortability in one's own skin. I think that's so attractive. Truly. "

" I'm so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in. "