I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.