Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.