Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

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.

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

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

I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

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?