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

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

" I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor. "

" I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well. "

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

" I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall. "

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

" When you work crazy TV hours, you got to have a good sense of humor. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" I think when someone knows who they are and is comfortable and confident with that, I think a lot of the typical, aesthetic things sort of fall by the wayside. "

" 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 My license was revoked by my dad.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. "

" For me, I look at a pilot and go, 'I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential of the story.' And I also go, 'That didn't work. I could change that. Maybe that works. I don't know. We'll see.' For me, I look at it, as an actor, as what can I improve upon? "

" It's so hard for me to let go of 'The Normal Heart.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character. "

" I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home. "

" 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. "

" When I was 27, I felt old. I didn't feel healthy. I just wasn't taking care of my body, and I had a body that wanted me to take care of it. "

" 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.' "

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

" New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching. "

" I tend toward more adult fare, and I would love to do a voice in an animated film or something the boys could go see, but at a certain point, I made peace with myself about it. "

" One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose. "

" My personal life is a source of incredible happiness for me, but it's personal, and it's not for me to hock or shop around to the highest bidder. "