The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.