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" Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14. "

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" There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany on the move and all of those things. There was a tension in the air. "

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" Certainly, when you're dealing with more deep, emotional work and sensory work, for me, it helps me to just stay in it. "

" 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.' "

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

" When I was 8 years old, I asked my parents to get me head shots, and they were like, 'What are you talking about? Go outside and play!' I'm so glad they did. "

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" 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. "

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

" I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas. "

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" In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that's 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight - or looking like a stripper. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened. "

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