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" I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society. "

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" I'm so grateful to be born in the times I live in and to be provided the opportunities I've been given. I'd be wrong to complain. "

" I have, like, three suits to my name. But one thing I've learned is that when you dress up in real life, people treat you differently. "

" I've definitely had crazy acting teachers. "

" 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. "

" As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't. "

" Working on TV can be quite insular. "

" 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 love 'Jaws,' and I think Robert Shaw's performance in 'Jaws' is one of the best screen performances of all time. I am a massive Robert Shaw fan. I think he's a brilliant, brilliant talent and we lost him way before his time. "

" 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 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.' "

" I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me. "

" What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor. "

" I remember taking my brother's car out, pushing it down the driveway in neutral in the night, and going out joyriding with friends and getting flat tires and getting busted. My license was revoked by my dad. So, definitely, I was a kid. I was a teenage boy. "

" You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry. "

" I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there. "

" When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do. "

" Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody. "

" I adore Jane Lynch, so just to get the opportunity to work with her was phenomenal. "

" I'd like to really make the Montgomery Clift biopic happen. "

" Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words. "

" If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor. "

" It was a gift to get to play a gay role that was written in a three-dimensional, human way. "

" I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals. "

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

" 'The Kids Are All Right' is amazing. The performances are insanely good. Julianne Moore is going to wreck you. This is the best I've ever seen her, and I've seen everything she's ever done. I like the story, and I think it's a great alternative to the big summer popcorn blockbusters. "

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

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

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